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Originally Posted by Wyckd
i always wondered if the massive desert between los angeles and vegas could have been converted into cities... someday...
eventually?
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Not unless more water becomes available. LA already drains water from the Owens Valley, up above the Mojave, for the city water supply. The Owens Valley used to be farmland; they _made_ it into a desert by sending most of the ground water to LA.
Outside of local sources, you've got the Colorado River, but water allocations on that are already divvied up six ways from Sunday.
On the geological timescale, plenty of water will be available out there; from what I understand, the tectonic plate is under stress there, being pulled in east and west at the same time. Eventually there'll be a big tear and the Sea of Cortez will head up to Barstow and beyond. Again, we're talking geological time, so don't buy beachfront property in Mojave yet :-)