Water by rail

[cottonpicken]

Maybe i ****ed some part of this up but if a rail car can hold 170,000 pounds thats 17000 gallons at 3000 bucks to get it there thats .17 cents a gallon pretty sure i missed something staring at reels to long probably screws your head up

[Koldkanuck]

About 21,500 imperial gallons needed for 1 acre, to represent 1" of rain. You would need about 3.5 million imperial gallons to do 160 acres to represent 1" of rain. Rail....I dont think so.

[cottonpicken]

I was thinking about the fountains of the bellagio and the front lawns of the most expensive houses in the world

[Oliver88]

Buffet would really cash in hauling water by rail.

[sumdumguy]

The logical place to put a pipeline is between the rails. There is plenty of unused space and the rail is already there.

[furrowtickler]

The only source of fresh water would be to pipe it from the Great Lakes , the Columbia river , or ole Mississippi . There realy are no other sources of major water left in that area

[farmaholic]

Like mustard said, who is in charge of community planning? Here in the Wild West, even rural subdivisions have to clear the hurdles to get the rubber stamp/approval.

[Hopperbin]

California is like hawaii. People moving in from all over the world for the great climate Except they do not have a wet season. Without water they grow nothing. I am sure agriculture water use is shut down is it not? Its all a desert And city where once crops grew under Iirrigation. Nice place to live.

[sumdumguy]

1. I didn't know that pecan orchards use a huge amount of water. 2. That India is desalinating ocean water using energy from waves. 3. 60% of the fresh water is used for agriculture-80% of that for meat prod'n. Irrigation is resorting to digging 1000 foot deep wells to replace shallow ones at costs of approx. $300,000.

It makes sense to me that meat prod'n should be confined to areas with high rainfall. SF3 , you lucly guy, here's your niche.

Also US might like to stop wasting money on wars and instead get desalinization projects
going instead?

[cottonpicken]

What about the bc coast,ship is cheaper,imagine the look on the enviro's faces when an oil tanker pulls up and starts sucking up some fresh water,lol.