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Bit December 6, 2021 · 3:14 · 3 min

Mississippi River pipeline armchair engineering

A long comedy riff on a reader's question about why the US doesn't pipe Mississippi River water to drought-stricken California like Roman aqueducts. The hosts dismantle the idea with lift stations, head pressure through the Rockies, and the observation that California borders an ocean — then pivot to tugging icebergs and piping rainwater down from Oregon.

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