Not enough H2O out West and too much back East

[tirolski]

a) Pump the water in pipes from here to there.
b) Entice folks to move back but they can’t live in floodplains.

The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From Drought

The North American Water and Power Alliance was an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked?

www.buzzfeednews.com

An "interstate water system" could fix the West's water woes

We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?

bigthink.com

 

[Harvey]

I didn't click on your links. Here's your map courtesy oregonstate.edu:

US Annual Precipitation Map

30 Year Normal Annual Precipitation.

nyskiblog.com

Not sure I agree with the assessment that there is too much water in the east.

 

[MC2]

I didn't click on your links. Here's your map courtesy oregonstate.edu:

US Annual Precipitation Map

30 Year Normal Annual Precipitation.

nyskiblog.com

Not sure I agree with the assessment that there is too much water in the east.

Yeah, I looked on Wednesday and was surprised to find that we (Albany) were almost exactly at average. Obviously we’re a bit above average now, but it has certainly *felt* like we had gotten a lot of rain.

That’s one reason you can’t rely on your feelings and have to go on data.

 

[tirolski]

Yeah, I looked on Wednesday and was surprised to find that we (Albany) were almost exactly at average. Obviously we’re a bit above average now, but it has certainly *felt* like we had gotten a lot of rain.

That’s one reason you can’t rely on your feelings and have to go on data.

If the average is a lot then we have a lot.
A drought around here is great, except in winter.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

I've mentioned many times that living almost ten years in the arid west was plenty for me. I just got back from a week in Colorado -- I love to visit but most of the places with cities, big or small, aren't sustainable for big populations. People in Denver have had an entire summer of breathing hideous smoke-filled air from forest fires in California, even worse than the gagging brown-cloud years in the 1980s.

So nice to come back to clean, fresh air in New Jersey!

 

[x10003q]

We have flash flood warnings right now in Bergen County. It has been heavy rain for the last hour.

 

[tirolski]

ww had em here last week for at least 2 daze.

Don’t need no more ppt.