Watching the nightly news in the San Joaquin Valley, one can’t help but notice that Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota presently have an acute surplus of water. Large areas of those states have been flooded because of torrential rains. Meanwhile, California suffers an epic drought. Is there some way the Golden State could use the surplus from back east? The major oil companies have built pipelines all over the United […]
Twin Tunnels
Want Water? Here’s a Better Alternative to Tunnels
Governor Jerry Brown proposes to build two tunnels under the San Joaquin River Delta at a cost of billions of dollars. The tunnels’ sole purpose would be to move water. They would have no effect on storage capacity. We’ve already advocated desalinization plants to make water instead of building tunnels to move water. There’s also a better way to control floods and store water in the Great Valley. In 1846, you could […]