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Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Drought emergency in Barcelona region: How long will residents accept water restrictions? | DW News" video.
I am going to give what I think is what could allow Barcelona and reservoirs in Catalonia to be re-supplied. I am an artist and an inventor. My idea is not new: aqueducts were used by the Romans. My idea for our time is to put piping---underground aqueducts---under roads and railway tracks and give transportation systems a duel purpose. Water is abundant in some regions of Spain and Europe and it could be sent via underground aqueducts to cities like Barcelona which is experiencing a 3-year-old drought. Of course, it's probably going to be very expensive to begin re-puposing our infrastructure, but we must think of a future with more and more extreme weather conditions. What we see now in the present is that our climate is not something we can count on to have enough water for people in regions where there is severe drought. The jet streams have been altered according to climate scientists and this is why there are these ultra-dry conditions. Piping under roads and railway systems as aqueducts is doable.
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@GreenIsTheWayForward GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I have sent this idea to places around the world from Australia to India to the Governor of California. I think water circulating under the roads could also be used to 'cool down' cities like Athens, Greece where the ashphalt melts in summer in the cities and becomes an oven at night. It doesn't rain any more, it's more like water bombs where a whole year of rain falls in hours. This water could be sent straight away to reservoirs and drought-stricken regions.
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