# You know if all these pipeline people want to be useful why cant we get water pipelines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 11, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-if-all-these-pipeline-people-want-to-be-useful-why-cant-we-get-water-pipelines/944078 "2021-06-11T22:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-if-all-these-pipeline-people-want-to-be-useful-why-cant-we-get-water-pipelines/944078/45 "2021-06-12T20:12:28Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I have a better suggestion: outlaw air conditioning. That would drive 99% of people who live in the desert out of there. > [@kanicbird](#): > > Well first say goodbye to the electricity produced by the Hoover Dam and other such hydro’s, it would take more energy to pump water into them than what we can recover by releasing that water. Well, that might eliminate the air conditioning… > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And now runs dry before it reaches the ocean, no? > > Why should people who want to live in deserts get to do that to yet more waterbodies? ^ That’s the real question. This is not the first time someone from out West has shown up with the attitude that because they moved to a dessert and don’t have as much water as they’d like they’re somehow entitled to other peoples’ water. See @not_alice in [this thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-from-the-great-lakes/542146) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-if-all-these-pipeline-people-want-to-be-useful-why-cant-we-get-water-pipelines/944078)._