> Yes. Lakes as a concept exist. There are many examples. What are you proposing?
Rivers from the lakes to unpopulated arid or drought striken parts of the country.
> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?
To use it to create a fresh water source that will feed a river. The evaporation I perhaps wrongly assumed will become rain somewhere relatively near by? But even without that, my assumption is most arid places were green at some point, re-introducing water will green them up and make them habitable for humans and generate economic activity. Salton sea in california, as disastrous as it is for example, you will see a lot of farms next to it in the middle of the desert!
> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?
Let me get it straight: you are proposing to pipe the output of wastewater treatment plants to an open basin (also known as artificial lake). Ones whose waste input was generated by humans drinking desalinated water. So your proposal is to desal, consume water, turn it into waste, clean waste, fill lake. Do I understand you well?
Minus the last cleanup part (except for debris). Our "waste" (not trash but toilet waste), can fertilize soil but also st high enough desalination volumes we wouldn't need to recycle water. But to meet the aforementioned need of artificial fresh water generation, we can use our waste. In cities we are already doing this except it mostly just feeds into the ocean or a bigger existing natural river, instead of that, we fill up waste lakes that drain into artificial rivers and now that water and nutrient helps grow plants, farms,etc...
If we make it work, everybody wins. More green, cooler planet, better economy, more housing along artificial river paths, transport,etc...(my original idea was actually to create these rivers next to interstate highways and gradually build high speed rail as well.
Much of the US is empty and unpopulated because there is no fresh water supply or doil that can sustain crops of any kind and we have growing national and planetary crises that might be alleviated by this including jobs,housing, climate, wars over resources,etc...
Most of whatever is now dry and unpopulated, including in the US is so because moisture is being pumped out of there by the atmosphere and sun. Not because someone forgot to drive some water there.
It is being moved out of there in such amounts that no economically possible diversion of water flow can overcome this. Cf the crazy and eventually buried USSR project of diverting north-flowing rivers water to the Kazakhstan from 80s.
That could not work even in theory, where the talk was about thousands of cubic meter per second and you suggest that some toilets can make this work. That is just not possible. Maybe if the climate actually changes, some of those lands will become good enough for agricultural use. But not now.
Rivers from the lakes to unpopulated arid or drought striken parts of the country.
> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?
To use it to create a fresh water source that will feed a river. The evaporation I perhaps wrongly assumed will become rain somewhere relatively near by? But even without that, my assumption is most arid places were green at some point, re-introducing water will green them up and make them habitable for humans and generate economic activity. Salton sea in california, as disastrous as it is for example, you will see a lot of farms next to it in the middle of the desert!
> Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it? Let me get it straight: you are proposing to pipe the output of wastewater treatment plants to an open basin (also known as artificial lake). Ones whose waste input was generated by humans drinking desalinated water. So your proposal is to desal, consume water, turn it into waste, clean waste, fill lake. Do I understand you well?
Minus the last cleanup part (except for debris). Our "waste" (not trash but toilet waste), can fertilize soil but also st high enough desalination volumes we wouldn't need to recycle water. But to meet the aforementioned need of artificial fresh water generation, we can use our waste. In cities we are already doing this except it mostly just feeds into the ocean or a bigger existing natural river, instead of that, we fill up waste lakes that drain into artificial rivers and now that water and nutrient helps grow plants, farms,etc...
If we make it work, everybody wins. More green, cooler planet, better economy, more housing along artificial river paths, transport,etc...(my original idea was actually to create these rivers next to interstate highways and gradually build high speed rail as well.
Much of the US is empty and unpopulated because there is no fresh water supply or doil that can sustain crops of any kind and we have growing national and planetary crises that might be alleviated by this including jobs,housing, climate, wars over resources,etc...