global warming has caused a serious drought in Atlanta, we need emergency funding to construct a fresh water pipeline from the Great Lakes
2007-10-20 02:40:37 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
1. Bush can't take the water in the Great Lakes because it is governed by the Boundary Waters Treaty. http://www.ijc.org/rel/agree/water.html
2. Water levels in the Great Lakes are already falling.
http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/water/levels/hydro.html
3. Building a pipeline over the Appalachian Mountains would be technically challenging and prohibitively expensive.
4. Atlanta should conserve water and limit growth to what the local watershed can support. If water is short, in Atlanta, people can move to another city with a better water supply. This is bad news for Atlanta real estate speculators, but a lot more practical than building a pipeline.
5. North Dakota is dumping excess water into the Red River in violation of the Boundary Waters Treaty. Build a pipeline the the Mississippi watershed instead and take North Dakota's unwanted polluted water instead.
6. The drought could be part of a natural cycle unrelated to global warming. Maybe the water problem will go away if you do nothing. If the drought is part of a natural cycle, the pipeline is not needed. If the drought is caused by global warming, then the problem will only get worse and a pipeline won't solve the problem.
2007-10-20 08:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by d/dx+d/dy+d/dz 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to take salt water from the ocean and turn it into fresh water, but the process is expensive. Not doing anything is also just as expensive, if not more so, so I wonder if they could build a desalinization plant on Georgia's Atlantic coast and then pipe the water inland to Atlanta? It seems that would be a lot less expensive than building a pipeline all the way from Georgia to the Great Lakes and it would keep the problem contained to Georgia, within state lines. Even after the drought ends, Georgia could then begin to export fresh water to other states that needed it.
Hasn't anyone done a rain dance yet?
And when was the last time Atlanta got hit by a hurricane? Not a big one - just a category 2 might solve the problem overnight.
......thanks, volcano's_rock, I knew it wasn't my imagination - I remembered seeing a show about it - modern marvels or something...
2007-10-20 06:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by endpov 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dude, what kind of a retard are you...Who would want a pipe line from the great lakes..We might as well get it from the Ocean..They're both salt water sources, and undrinkable. The biggest reason Atlanta is losing so much water is because our reserves provide water for portions of Alabama and Florida..In Florida they're taking fresh water to save an endangered species of muscles...
2007-10-20 09:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by crknapp79 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Atlantans need to ante up and pay for the increased cost of desalinization of seawater. Or just shut up and move somewhere else where there is water instead of expecting the taxpayer to prop up their local investments.
Not that I don't think Hillary and the DemoCongress will come up with a fix that would make Teddy and the Big Diggers blush.
2007-10-20 07:45:07 · answer #4 · answered by A Toast For Trayvon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to mention, Canada owns 1/2 the great lakes and all water taken rom the great lakes are monitored. You just can;t drain them without hurting people in
Toronto, Buffalo, Syracuse, Chicago, Detroit, Kingston, etc.
And there are more people in those cities than all of Georgia.
2007-10-20 05:54:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha, good one. As if such a pipe could be built in only one year even if there was infinite money! And as if the people of the Great Lakes area would just give you their water without a fight. As if that was the president's job!
2007-10-20 03:52:27 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
pipeline not gonna get done in time to do any good
prohibitive expense of pipline.
water in great lakes is not his to give away in the first place
and what would the people in the greal lakes region do for water if he did?
2007-10-20 02:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by Ursa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would cost billions of dollars, and take years of time.
It's one reason why global warming with cost us all a lot of money. Changing precipitation patterns will mean our present water storage and transportation facilities will need major changes.
Add in the need to move people away from coasts and replace things we lose in coastal floods, and this would be a major economic disaster.
2007-10-20 02:48:11 · answer #8 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The pipe would need to be HUGE. You're talking about a couple billion gallons of water per day. I doubt you could make one large enough.
The more reasonable answer would be a pipe from the ocean (probably near Savannah) to help supplement our current supply. Even that would take years and billions, so it won't happen anytime soon.
2007-10-20 05:46:30 · answer #9 · answered by mickmel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't it be more sensible to find an underground reservoir in your own state?
Or run a pipeline to the OCEAN, and build a desalinizing plant?
2007-10-20 02:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋