If one aquaduct is getting you marveled, you should visit The Netherlands. That country is full of water management structures, otherwise half the country would by under water. And it’s a bigger agricultural giant than California, with less than half the population and about a tenth of the surface.

CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move 10% off this water. Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff. NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water.Delaware Aqueduct is 86 miles and the worlds longest tunnel.

So. Why build when no water.

Not going to happen. We who live on and demand on the Mississippi/ Ohio River system already have dibs on that water and CA doesn’t get to steal our water after squandering it’s own.

@@Favorite-catNip There is always water in the Columbia river

@@elizabethclaiborne6461 Agree, take from The Columbia. Shourter, 100 times cheaper, fast.

Southern California was a semiarid place. Not a desert, but always a semiarid place since Spain first occupied the lands.

Super cool info

California as different climates in southern Cali and in Central Valley. The climate is grasslands wetlands and desserts. The San Joaquin was wetter in the 1800s and early 1900s before the dams.

Hi Sam! Love your channel so much...couldn't resist saying hello here.

Your information is "bunk". LA was the #1 agricultural county in the United States. But the huge influx of people moving into the area moved the farms out because of the manufacturing industry. My family "moved" out of the San Fernando Valley in 1945 because of the immigration and moved to the San Joaquin Valley.

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Agreed!

Arizona has a water system?

@@calypsomcdonnell1479 yes

@@calypsomcdonnell1479 Its quite amazing.

Arizona is insane. Too many people moving here and not enough water.

@@mandymooligan9783 It depends on how the water is used.

Stockton is terrible.

How haven't you been shot already?

develop more water sources ???? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! WE NEED TO STOP GIVING WATER TO AGRIBUSINESSES.

​@@IamthedudeYes, but hey, it's home 😂

But they completely drained a reservoir to save money saying that desalination was too expensive.

Both places are communist hell holes that are mismanaging their natural resources into disaster 🤷🏽‍♂️ seems like an equal choice

The weather sucks there.

Where in the northwest?

Californians usually know northwesterner when they see one. Pasty skin and pale faces.

@@calypsomcdonnell1479 < - - - It doesnt even know where "there" is! Yet the Moore Ron decided to chime in!!!

climte change, that the new normal

@@anno-fw7xn clImAtE ChAnGE

Maybe don’t move to then develop cities in a desert?

@@marshalltucker9050 Nah SoCal is awesome

@@anno-fw7xn unfortunately, there won't be a new normal until we've stabilized atmospheric CO2. And not even then, assuming Greenland's ice sheet is terminal. If so (if not it will be soon), kiss stable climate or coastlines goodbye for a thousand years or more.

I’ve grown up and live near it. Sadly it is drying up too. Years of drought plus crazy population growth, the 3 main rivers that feed it are constantly tapped out with the growth. Crazy to think in 1984 it was flooded and too high from the insane amount of snow that season and sudden runoff in the spring.

I’m really excited for a pipeline from the Pacific to Utah, to refill the lake! I feel like Oregon & Nevada will both be willing to authorize a pipeline. Nevada, in particular, I suspect would really like a cut of the salt water. 💜👍 It’s a multi-billion $$ project, that creates a bunch of jobs, and saves the environment … I think Oregon & Nevada will be ready to vote this in faster than Utah. 🤣 and it’s Utah’s lake.

Fillng GSL serves no purpose worthy of a pipeline

Ban avocados

Are you still breathing???

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!

You mean a state which part of the largest economy in the world and is basically the whole west coast is big… well duh if you took the whole east coast and made it one state the same thing would happen. It always made me laugh how people from California think that makes them special. All that means is you all have a single government and less say in your local area.

I also think it's funny that the Great Lakes region has better water conversation policies than the American southwest. Our rivers still flow, and what little water is diverted out of the watershed HAS to be returned (except Chicago. Fuck you Chicago.)

The central valley has been dry for 400,000 years.

@@Gail-gf7km no he talking about a smaller lake. though yes central valley was a huge lake.

Not true. You're talking about Tulare Take as mentioned in this video.

Yup, we had our own ice age Mediterranean sea 200 feet deep, called Corcoran,, but it drained out of the Monterey Bay. Tulare Lake was left behind with several other lakes... With a huge central valley marshland. Then American caused the dust bowl…killed the natives...and drained the lake and any water. Probably messed up the rain cycle.. permanently for other states near us.

It would not be enough power with the present-day technology.

yes, but … as the video mentions dams, reservoirs, and aquaducts … major projects, really *big*! pretty sure your solar desalination project needs to be this big to work. 🤷‍♀️ like, pump ocean water out into the desert to create a salt lake, to start.

so, salt lake out in the desert … water temp will get much warmer than the ocean. that gets you, say 20-30% closer to evaporation. then pump water from the lake into your evaporation chamers with the mirrors & stuff. 🥰 it’ll run faster with the water pre-warmed. you will want electricty for pumps & small motors to keep the mirrors aligned … but out in the desert … just add some solar panels & batteries to the plan. 🙂👍

How can the Los Angeles Aqueduct NOT BE MENTIONED? This video is inept right there alone.

The soil....it can grow anything with the right amount of water.

That river is really far away.

@@calypsomcdonnell1479 365 mi long water tunnel is not much, in this setting. US make the 86 mi long Delavare (water tunnel) Aquaduct, when figthing Hirohito and Hitler. 365 is not problem today.

Why does California get water rights to the Columbia?

Yes excellent point! And i agree it would of help, and just maybe put the current issue of water shortage out farther. Eventually it was going happen due to conditions from where the water is coming from ( Colorado river) but also having drip system would also a much lower strain where as the river would not been given such a impact. I am a full believer of soaking my grass and plants rather than spraying.

Was looking for this comment. I'm not sold on the fact this is really "watering the desert" when this land before was more marshy like wetland. Seems like they screwed up the natural saturation & water table under this already dry climate & made it worse.

You really don't understand History, Ecology, Hydrology, Climatology, etc, do you? It's not that simple. No. Where. Near. You make it seem as though it'll all be okay with just a "magical" fix. But, it won't be. You're just proposing what has already been done, for millennia, by humans, albeit on grander and grander scales. It's also what occurs naturally, just on time scales beyond human development. All you're proposing is shifting the "fix" until later, like so many others have done, throughout recorded history... What happens when the floods don't come? What happens when the climate shifts, and what is arid land becomes wet, or wet land becomes arid? What happens the floods no longer bring fresh alluvial soil to the downriver valleys, and the vast delta farmlands are no longer fertile? What happens when more water is introduced to arid/semi-arid regions, and populations bloom further, necessitating even more water diversion? What happens when more water for crops leads to more crop planting, ergo leading to further water demand? What happens when the once wetter regions, and fertile farms, begin to dry out, get used up, and populations shift to the now wetter, formerly arid/semi-arid lands? What happens as this all further changes local, and wider, climate, and these areas reach a tipping point? What happens when that tipping point is surpassed? I could go on, but do I really need to?

@@marshalofod1413 You really don't appreciate how amazing the water distribution and storage is - that you inherited and benefit from. The entire country and even the world have much greater access to fruits, vegetables, and nuts because dams, pipes, diversion canals, pumping stations and millions of workhours spent to build this incredible system that's kept the land incredibly productive for about the last century. The millions of people in CA only use a small fraction (10-20%) of the water. The vast majority of water is for produce irrigation. The Colorado River and Southern CA rivers are known to have unpredictable flows, while the Mississippi River, Columbia River, Klamath River have more consistent and much higher flows. By diverting more springtime flood waters into Colorado River system, Lakes Powell and Mead could be filled or maintained till the southern drought breaks. A major El Nino like the early 80's would flood the valleys and recharge the reservoirs, but waiting and hoping is never good policy when simple actions can stabilize the system. California has to: 1. Stop dumping water into the Salton Sea. Salton Sea is a manmade lake that should be allowed to evaporate. Deal with the dust of the dried out lake bed by other means but stop wasting fresh water into a salt water lake. 2. Stop dumping water into the ocean to save the delta smelt. Dumping huge volumes of water into the ocean to lower the salinity of the delta from many rivers (Sacramento, Klamath or others) are having no beneficial effects. 3. Stop releasing pulses of Colorado River water to the Pacific. 105,392-acre-foot pulse flow of water-about 34 billion gallons-was sent through Morelos and down the dry channel in Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. This was a waste of water during a historic drought. Scheduling more releases is ridiculous. 4. Don't remove the Copco dam and the other dams on the Klamath River. CA should build more reservoirs and hydro power stations. Anywhere fresh water flows into the ocean is a waste of fresh water. It doesn't make sense to desalinate when fresh water can be sourced. There is plenty of water in many major river systems that can be used for irrigation in CA. 1. Get water from Northern CA. Source more water from the Klamith River at Copco Lake (2,605 feet). Water could flow right down I-5 into the valley. 2. Get more water that flows east of the Rockies. Connect the Platte River (Also a tributary of the Missouri River and Mississippi River system) to a tributary of the Colorado River - Connect the Seminoe Reservoir Elevation 6,357 and the Pathfinder Reservoir elevation 5,852 and Bull Lake Elevation 5805 to the Green River with each having large pipes of about 100 to 150 miles each over the continental divide. 3. One simple water project could solve the southwest water issue. The project is the Rte 191 Aqueduct Project. It involves running a large diameter pipe for just 200 miles, under Rte 191 from the Southwest corner of Yellowstone Lake to the Northwest corner of Fontenelle Reservoir. The goal of this project is to siphon water from the high flow Columbia and Mississippi River systems into the drought stressed Colorado River system. The project would pull water from Yellowstone Lake and from Lewis Lake and deliver the water to the Fontenelle Reservoir. This would have an elevation drop of over 1200 feet over the 200 miles. Significant hydro energy would be produced from the downward water flow in the pipe. Yellowstone Lake elevation is 7737’. Lewis Lake elevation is 7784’ and the Fontenelle Reservoir is at 6510’. To minimize impact, the pipe could be laid under or alongside Rte 191 and a short stretch of Rte 189. The water removed from these massive river systems would not be missed. The Columbia River’s flow rate is about 12 times the natural flow rate of the Colorado River and the Mississippi River is about 27 times the natural Colorado River.

@@marshalofod1413 These idiots are delusional.

@@danhardhat2 Not the point. What dude is saying is that if all of that “farmland” was meant to be farmland (and not desert), then there would be no need to alter every source of flowing water in the state to make it farmable. How does an entire state not understand this? And dont kid yourself. Americans waste roughly 1/3 of all food produced in this country. The effect the UBER VITAL AND IMPORTANT California Ag industry going belly up would be a couple years of tightened supply and a bunch of cake eaters having to forego $16/lb almonds and $5 avocados. I think the US consumer will somehow figure out a way to scrape by without those essentials.

@@djorfuusk @Thomas Batten What? the central valley is natural farmland, but mostly grassland. Without irrigation, it's just cattle ranches like east Texas. The Imperial valley is desert. CA produces far more than just avacados and almonds...its high value, nutritious produce like strawberries, citrus fruits, lettuce, random vegetables, and many other essentials...Some food will always be wasted, but that doesn't mean you let CA run dry, spike foods prices, which hurts poor Americans and starves poor countries. There are plenty of options to get more water to the Southwest. 30 million people have moved out there in the last 50 years and they've done nothing to increase water supply. Many things can be done! Doesn't matter if it's desert or not. When New York City needed a water supply, they went to the Catskill Mountains, dammed rivers, flooded many towns, built huge aqueducts - it didn't just happen, they made it happen - for the 9-million people served by the NYC water system. Sure the southwest has to do a little more but it's the same principle...Trap water at high elevation, to flow controlled to the cities at lower elevation. No matter where people are, they always need water to be diverted. This defeatist nothing-we-can-do attitude is pathetic.

California or LA?

Aztec times lmao i think you’re confused. 9000 plus years ago was not aztec times