Not if we tap the Great Lakes. Consider this - in an entire YEAR, California uses 12.4 cubic miles of water. For EVERYTHING - agriculture, aquaculture, drinking, industrial, etc. Lake Superior alone has over 2,900 cubic miles of water.
Consider this - Lake Tahoe has about 36 cubic miles of water. In a true drought crisis, it can be tapped to supply California's agricultural needs for about 50 years, assuming the drought never ends. And that's with just 36 cubic miles. A Great Lakes irrigation system would NEVER run out of water for the rest of the US. The quantities of water are so vast that it is not a realistic concern. But the economic gains would be incalculable.
Why aren't you supporting a Great Lakes Pipeline Project to put America to work and make the deserts bloom, Sup Forums?
Michael Morris
BOTH COUNTRIES ARE ALREADY DOING THIS YOU FUCKIN PLEB
Benjamin Stewart
As a Michigander, FUCK YOU. I'm not giving up the great lakes for a bunch of mexicans.
Julian Edwards
Fuck the worst coast. Stay away from my water.
Cooper Campbell
>36/12.4 = 50 op...
Zachary Cruz
Two words.
Aral Sea
Angel Williams
That's because even a drought-ravaged version of California still has huge "native" sources of water like aquifers, rivers, reservoirs, and occasional captured rains. The pipeline water makes up the deficit in water supply; it doesn't replace the entire supply.
Daniel Young
This. Leave the lakes alone.
David Jones
You do realize that the Michigan National Guard as well as other states in the pact have a standing agreement to fuck over every other entity that tries to take this water, yes? Hell, even if you live within the area you need to jump hoops just to draw water from it. So good luck. If you want the water that much, move here. Otherwise rethink your life if it worries you that much.
Again, the lakes are one the few issues these states will pick over the union any day of the week in a heartbeat.
Elijah Gonzalez
I don't think it would be that much of a problem; people would get paid for the water. There would be an act of Congress to create the pipeline system, and it would include an Alaska-style "permanent fund" where state residents get a check each year for the water withdrawn.
Yes, people love the lakes, but they also love gibs. And the amount of water withdrawn would not make a visible difference for a long time anyway.
Cameron Watson
what type of map is that? why is oklahoma's shape fucked up
Aaron Butler
Someone mentioned the Areal sea which is probably what will happen to the great lakes if you would tap them on water. Is it worth sacrefasing them to suply water for only 50 years? dumb idea
Kevin Davis
FUCK CALI
YOU WILL NEVER TAKE OUR LAKE MICHIGAN WATER
I HOPE CALI GETS NUKED
David Gonzalez
>be America >pollute all of your water sources to the point where 25% of all lakes and rivers are toxic >ruin the environment and deny climate change, resulting in loss of watershed >want some sweet sweet Canadian water
Go fuck yourselves
Ryder Ward
This is what Oklahoma's border looked like 225 million years ago.
Asher Gray
Fuck Cali. I hope you all die of thirst.
Anthony Turner
Fuck off. The great lakes are rightful Midwestern clay. Commifornians can hurry up and float off into the ocean.
Nathaniel Jenkins
You guys have more than enough water to go around. Sharing is caring.
Leo Myers
why not try living within your means, california
Julian Wright
>Dehydrate pedophile cancer faggots
>Hydrate pedophile cancer faggots
Wyatt Wood
Wisconsinite here. I will literally shoot your fucking ass if you try and steal my resources. You're the fucking idiots who chose to live in a goddamn desert. You made your bed, sleep in it.
Joshua Lopez
DUDE JUST DRAIN A LAKE LMAO
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
DISRUPTING AN ECOSYSTEM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN YOU NERD????? GOD WILL FIX IT
Hunter Morris
The Soviets were atheists. Also, it's not Russia's fault that low-IQ Uzbeks didn't maintain their own canals properly. That led to a lot of unnecessary water loss.
Tyler Ross
I think you've got your answer, OP. Stay the fuck away from the lakes.
Levi Jones
>it's not Russia's fault that low-IQ Uzbeks
Central planning communist cunts decide to plant cotton in a desert. They need lots of water unsurprisingly. The disrupted hydrological cycle never recovers.
"Oops". Real communism has never been tried.
Bentley Cruz
Every so often some Cali idiot starts a thread on this very topic and gets BTFOd. Those commie fucks cannot grasp the fact that midwesterners would literally wage a fucking war in defense of these lakes.
Matthew Cooper
Just pump water from ocean whats the problem?
Mason Nelson
If you want to tap the great lakes for freshwater you first need to stop running ships and boats through them
Joseph Ross
>t. water resources engineer I like it. Turn Mexico into an extension of America's farm. No more illegal immigrants. The environmental impacts could be easily mitigated. Work out a trade for the best bigly border wall the world has ever seen.
Julian Young
Pls don't touch these
Gabriel Johnson
What happened here? Was this caused by man? If so, do you really think 50 years later, in the most prosperous country the world has ever known, under the heaviest design regulations, this would actually happen?
Alexander Bailey
> sending pure American water to Mexico nice try Pedro
James Jenkins
>Was this caused by man? Yes.
> this would actually happen? This can happen.
Cooper Cruz
hey you leave Canada's great Lakes alone.
Dominic Hill
Because we have very advanced water purifiers and desalinator machines being held hostage by ((them)) and the 1951 national inventions secrecy act.
Samuel Jenkins
Surprised no one has mentioned that commiefornia (may it burn in hell) has PLENTY of fucking water but they are getting cucked by a fucking fish lmao
James Fisher
yes and yes
Camden Morgan
The way to solve California's water problem is to kick out all the illegal aliens and quit irrigating low value crops like hay.