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This comes up every time there is a drought in the south of the UK compared to the north. It really is hard to mentally comprehend the colossal amounts of water that a river is moving.

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I think the difference is that in the UK we have a heritage of building canals that can service as a utility. The Canal system has largely been forgotten but it could be a useful network again.

A canal system wouldn't work for the USA but for a smaller landmass like England it could work.

Just make the pipe colossal. Or multiple smaller pipes that distribute the load. Throw a node.js server behind it and you'll get scale! Don't forget to use Mongo also.

That could just work! You could probably serve every tap in the North of England. As long as only one person wants turns their tap on at once.

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