dig and expand reservoirs. You're going to need them for power storage eventually,
and irrigation, and recreation!
it's nuts that a rainy country like england has water shortages! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Grand Contour Canal
which could shift water around, allow bulk freight to move around cheaply, serve as a linear park, serve as pumped storage, and probably be self-financing if we captured some of the development gains in respect of all the land within (say) 400 metres of it.
Interesting thing here in Teheran is that the filtering software the censors here use won't let me look at the link to the Grand Contour canal reference.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
