Crazy idea? Maybe, but 'big thinking' — like a 700-mile pipeline — is what is needed in 'dire times' like these, lawmakers say.
Crazy idea? Maybe, but ‘big thinking’ — like a 700-mile pipeline — is what is needed in ‘dire times’ like these, lawmakers say.
“You might say, ‘Well, that’s a crazy idea,’ but San Diego desalinizes now some of their water [from the ocean],” said Rep. Carl Albrecht, R-Richfield, at the commission’s Tuesday meeting. “The U.S. Navy uses desalinization when they take a nuclear ship into a port where there’s been a hurricane in Third World countries and the infrastructure’s wiped out.”
“Water’s going to become pretty valuable for drinking and sewer and irrigation,” he said. “We run pipelines all over this country full of gas and oil and whatever. We’re going to put a lot of money into the Great Salt Lake, not just what we put last year.” A better option would be for Utah to figure out how to use less water, so more of the Bear, Weber and Jordan rivers reach the lake, said Friends of Great Salt Lake Executive Director Lynn de Freitas. A pipeline would not only degrade the landscape it crosses but would also disrupt the terminal lake’s chemistry.
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