How much would California pay for Lake Erie?
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April 17th, 2015
A previous question about the Western drought got me to thinking.
California is pretty much out of water.
On the other hand, states like Ohio, Michigan, Illinois etc. plus our friends in Ontario, Canada are loaded up with the Great Lakes.
I think there might be a potential windfall for the American midwest, and Ontario.
Minus the cost of a pipeline or some other means of transmission, how much per gallon are the Great Lakes worth to California?
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Just a drop in the ocean hahahahahahahahaha…i’ll get my coat.
If I were going to pick a lake, it wouldn’t be Erie. That’s the shallowest of the Great Lakes, and had a terrible pollution problem a couple of decades ago. Basically, the water is OK but not great.
If you’re going to buy lake water, get it from Lake Superior. Much larger, deeper, cleaner water.
That said, creating a water pipeline across the US to California would be mega-expensive, like billions upon billions. I doubt that economics are in its favor.
All these melting glaciers should provide plenty of water.
A cheaper, more practical option would be to build desalination plants, considering that California has goddamn huge ocean at it’s feet.
This year or next? Trade via the barter system: All of Los Angeles County.
Just make sure they leave us the perch.
We just need a good Sierra snow pack here in Northern CA. to feed all of our vast rivers and lakes and reservoirs. Southern CA. can find a way to get their own damn water. State of Jefferson all the way. lol
I don’t want Lake Erie I want Sierra SNOW that usually has our vast rivers flowing coldly and briskly with lots of water in the reservoirs.
Drought is not unusual but it is the duration that causes issues. The last bad drought scene was in the late 70’s and now again the past 4 years.
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