# Moving freshwater around on continents **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 28, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-freshwater-around-on-continents/951528 "2021-09-28T17:20:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 135
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-freshwater-around-on-continents/951528/135 "2021-10-06T00:06:07Z")
i asked this a few months ago and somewhat received crap for it > [@You know if all these pipeline people want to be useful why cant we get water pipelines?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-if-all-these-pipeline-people-want-to-be-useful-why-cant-we-get-water-pipelines/944078): > > Since 90 percent of the west is pretty much is either going to die or burn down because of the drought why can’t the people who make things like the Keystone pipeline figure out how to take a pipeline from places that flood regularly to places that are in a permanent drought? they wouldn’t even have to clean it much … just pipe it to the colorado, hoover dam etc that way they get rid of the floodwater and we don’t have to live on water rationing which is becoming a permanent idea … and since i… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-freshwater-around-on-continents/951528)._