Can California Drought-Proof Itself With This Pair of Giant Gravity-Powered Water Tunnels?

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As part of his State of the State address today , California Governor Jerry Brown released anew videoto excuse his programme for protecting California ’s water supply . According to Brown , it ’ll not only drought - cogent evidence the Department of State ’s water , but also make it seism - proof , terrorism - test copy , and clime alteration - proof . Ambitious .

The massive infrastructure project , call theCalifornia Water Fix , will essentially undo the antediluvian and inefficient technology in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta , which bank on a series of pumps to draw water acclivitous from increasingly threaten sources . Brown wants to get the picture two 40 - foot diameter gravity - powered tunnels that divert brisk water in the due north , get around the Delta completely , and move it south to the body politic ’s agriculture interests .

Supporters say the project will protect the environment while assure that people have enough weewee . The plan also would promote the water transfer system so it would n’t be as susceptible to the gigantic earthquake that ’s coming any day now . And given the extra threat of rising ocean levels , a water supply from a root that wo n’t presently be deluge in seawater makes sense .

Not everyone jibe with the plan , and it ’s only one potential solution to a much bigger job ( that the state’swater policyhasn’t been entirely overhauled is kind of mind - boggling ) . I see the need to elevate tenner - old pumps , but Brown ’s programme is essentially still theold modelof diverting body of water from river to deliver it to Farmer . go more water around only works as long as you ’ve got enough body of water to do it . Which is why any major body of water plan should perhaps be more about conservation and storage than the assumption that we ’ll still have rivers with enough weewee to divert them .

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