Comments by "Andre Falksmen" (@andrefalksmen1264) on "Water Pipeline: What If An Aqueduct Was Built From The Mississippi River To The Southwest?" video.

  1. Not even close, desalination is three orders of magnitude, three hundred times, more expensive than pumping water.
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  2. You forgot the part that crops need sunshine to grow at a desert has ample Sunshine. If you can control the water and apply fertilizer, the desert is the perfect place to grow crops which is why California supplies 70% of the US with its food.
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  3. Desalination is not economically viable option, it would cost close to 2.4 billion dollars a year to disseminate enough water to replace the cuts from the Colorado River alone, that's a mere 4.4 million acre-feet of water.
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