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I hear all the time about how nice it is there and the cost of living. I love the mountains and am courious as to how far away rhey actually are, in Farmington that is?
The idea of a desalinization plant is great, I also think about it all the time.
I guess it is just the cost that is prohibitive, but so is the war in Iraq.
The question arises as to what would happen if water was so available in the southewest at point that it could hardly be wasted!
-would population see an explosive growth?
-what would happen to the deserts?
-how much water and land would be aloted for agriculture?
-would irrigation drastically change the environment and maybe weather patterns?
-etc.......
> Probably help if you started a thread for Farmington tammy !!
Not to be sarcastic, er, ... OK to *also* be sarcastic - it would probably help to use the [Search] function visible in the blue bar near the top and [Search] for other topics on Farmington.
When the results come up, ignore the threads related to South Carolina and Connecticut and *only* click on the ones related to NM. I found 487 threads. This is not an exaggeration. Here is but a sample:
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After finding the threads with good information, it would also be helpful to read stuff in those threads.
After digesting the information contained in those threads and finding you still have questions, then post and ask.
I'd like to answer some of the specific questions asked by tammyc49, but I'm prohibited from doing so in this thread.
> ... desalination ... the cost that is prohibitive, ...
It depends on what you are using it for. The cost is probably prohibitive for use in irrigation where consumption is measured in 10,000 gallon increments per household per month.
Consumption for human needs is a fraction of that and not likely to be prohibitive as long as you don't live 50 miles away from work and commute in a 6,000 pound vehicle.
> ... what would happen if water was so available in the southewest
> at point that it could hardly be wasted!
I would have used a different choice of words, but I think the answer to your question can be found in the central valley of California - the Sacramento Valley in the N and the San Joaquin Valley in the S. The water for that agricultural economy was developed and paid for by someone other than the end users.
-would population see an explosive growth?
I bet growth would be higher, but the SE of the US has grown free of water worries until recently. Much of the growth is for the superior climate. Almost no one has *not* moved to the SW because of water worries. Some people are worried about it, but it has not stopped people from coming.
-what would happen to the deserts?
See comments above on the California central valley. Also see the results of unlimited water availability on the area around Phoenix.
-how much water and land would be aloted for agriculture?
If the water was free for the taking and available to anyone who wanted to set up a farm, then all the flat bits.
-would irrigation drastically change the environment and maybe weather patterns?
I don't think this has happened in CA or AZ. There are small, localized differences between now and the way it was 200 years ago, but nothing drastic.
Our overall weather patterns in the US are determined by latitude, the Pacific Ocean, the mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes by the Atlantic Ocean. Oh; don't forget the Jet Stream.
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