The problem with this analysis is it's hard to get the water from where it falls to where it's wanted.
There may be pie-in-the-sky ideas of a water pipeline from Alaska to California, or from the Great Lakes to Utah, but the costs are prohibitive.
There may be pie-in-the-sky ideas of a water pipeline from Alaska to California, or from the Great Lakes to Utah, but the costs are prohibitive.
'Watersheds' are meant for that, and development of that is a serious endevor.
When rain falls on dry ground, some of the water soaks in, or infiltrates the soil. Some water that infiltrates will remain in the shallow soil layer, where it will gradually move downhill, through the soil, and eventually enters the stream by seepage into the stream bank. Some of the water may infiltrate much deeper, recharging groundwater aquifers.
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
Right. But how does that get water from high rainfall watersheds to the various drying out watersheds Americans love to live in and farm in?