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While on the issue of water:

Some countries have floods in one part, and drought in the other.

The floods are so bad that large numbers of people die.

Here's a great challenge that should be worked on: how to capture the flood water and use it to mitigate the droughts. Could something like Elon Musk's Boring company concept fix this?



That’s basically how dams and reservoirs work. It just requires a lot of space to store water.


People are constantly talking about using pipes to solve the US desert southwest's water crisis, as if building a water pipeline for thousands of miles isn't some gigantic logistical and engineering nightmare -- as well as a bureaucratic nightmare, since most places with fresh water don't want people in the desert literally sucking them dry.


The cost of pumping dirty water uphill ...




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