Why can’t the US build infrastructure that automatically siphons water from flood zones to the west during flood seasons?
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– The west is really, *really* far away from where the flooding would be happening, the piping alone would be enormously expensive
– The west is also *uphill* from where the flooding would be happening, and siphoning doesn’t work uphill, the outlet has to be lower than the inlet
– There’s not a continuous string of federal land between the flood areas and the zone that the piping could even be placed on. It would require an enormous exercise of eminent domain that would keep the project constantly bogged down in court battles
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