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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23286)	7/8/2006 1:24:27 PM
From: Jim S	Respond to of 541429

"What is the feasibility of piping the water we need from regions with surplus to regions tipping into deficit? Here in South Africa, they pipe water down from the Lesotho highlands dams to the Johannesburg area maybe 200 miles away. Can you pipe water over flat land for much longer distances?" Well, it worked for the Romans! Today though, as with most things, it is a matter of economics. I'm not sure how long the LA aqueduct in CA is, but I'm sure it's over a hundred miles. Another big obstacle is that places that now have water don't want to give it away. It used to be that water-rich mountains were often very sparsely populated, so taking water wasn't politically difficult. Now, those same places are populated by rich environmentalists (that was a gratuitous jab <G>) that can muster legal and political forces to oppose the loss of "their" water.