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Old 05-14-2015, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ
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A note about the Salt and Gila rivers. Any excess water from Show Low lake gets pumped over the rim towards the Gila watershed (as Phelps Dodge is the one who built the lake) and some of the water from Blue ridge reservoir gets pumped over the rim to the Salt watershed.
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Old 05-15-2015, 12:20 AM
 
Location: galaxy far far away
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We're all getting too serious here. I heard a (very drunk) engineer at a party recently come up with a perfect solution to several of our problems. Dig a Canal from the California coast to the Gulf Coast! That would solve both the border problem AND the water problem. Then we could set up desalinization plants all along the new canal and look at all the jobs we would create!





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Old 05-20-2015, 09:05 AM
 
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Phoenix and especially Southern California are "too big to fail" so if worse comes to worse they will build desalination plants or maybe pipe in water from the Pacific Northwest or the Great Lakes region.
I read somewhere on this forum that the Great Lakes states and Canada have already agreed that they would not share a single drop of their water with people living down south.

Edit : just saw this has been mentioned by a couple posters.
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Old 05-21-2015, 03:05 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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I read somewhere on this forum that the Great Lakes states and Canada have already agreed that they would not share a single drop of their water with people living down south.

Edit : just saw this has been mentioned by a couple posters.
Starvation/depravity/greed could do wonders to change their minds!
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Old 05-21-2015, 01:17 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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We're all getting too serious here. I heard a (very drunk) engineer at a party recently come up with a perfect solution to several of our problems. Dig a Canal from the California coast to the Gulf Coast! That would solve both the border problem AND the water problem. Then we could set up desalinization plants all along the new canal and look at all the jobs we would create!
HA HA HA. I have a better idea (although probably just as crazy): make all the new arrivals who moved here specifically for the sunshine & dry weather dig for their own water. No more of these convenient water lines going to every new development supplied courtesy of the developers and/or the taxpayers. The ones who claim to love the sun, and claim that the heat isn't all that bad should be made to WORK out in it. Have them dig their own wells, and supply their own water lines into their homes ... then we'll see how much they really enjoy the blasting sun & heat, and then maybe they'll realize how limited the ground water is (once they get a dose of reality).
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Old 05-21-2015, 06:26 PM
 
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Starvation/depravity/greed could do wonders to change their minds!
Don't know about the Great Lakes states, but Canada is likely able to grow enough food for its 30 million inhabitants. Might have surplus too.
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Old 05-23-2015, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Don't know about the Great Lakes states, but Canada is likely able to grow enough food for its 30 million inhabitants. Might have surplus too.
Canada imported $4.1 Billion of ag products from California in 2013 and a relatively minor (but someone is using it) $221 million from Arizona. The world is way too interconnected to make such statements.
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