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Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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Arizona and the entire South West don't have a drought problem. They have an aridification problem. While this canal project is a good move in general and we should have been doing it years ago, there is no solving the over-population of a desert. One look at Colorado River basin and its reservoirs is enough to know there is nothing we can do to fix it.
Yeah... but sometimes you've gotta accept that a band-aid is all you can do. While this doesn't fix the underlying problems, if it works it'll provide more water and low carbon energy, which is better than nothing.
Unfortunately they will just use even more then, so the "shortage" will be maintained.
The "one more lane" of water supply.