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Pumpcan1 t1_jddcxjs wrote

California has a water storage problem. Start building reservoirs and quit playing the victim.

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Fox-Flimsy t1_jddiw76 wrote

Yes came into say the same thing. The ONLY reason why we’re potentially still in a drought at this point is because we simply do not have enough infrastructure to capture all the rain/runoff. We are simply wasting opportunity at this point

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rabbitwonker t1_jddkyq3 wrote

You mean, continue expanding the capacity of some reservoirs. Because, as far as I know, we’ve already built all the dams that are really possible.

Unless you’re talking about Yosemite? 🤨

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Pumpcan1 t1_jddrcxg wrote

I’m sure we’re all in agreement that dams on rivers are ecological disasters so let’s get away from that. We can build storage reservoirs by find natural depressions in the land and pumping water to them. Washington state has Banks lake which is a holding reservoir that was a dry coulee and dams were built at the top and bottom. water is pumped into it from the grand coulee dam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks_Lake

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