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Originally Posted by Lubicon
The amount of water lost to evaporation from canals must be quite significant. It's costly but replacing canals with pipelines could potentially reduce the amount of water drawn from rivers. At some point does the value of water make it economical to start replacing our canals?
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California is looking at covering canals with solar panels. Apparently India has done it in a few places. Saves water and produces power. Cost and maintenance are the issues but you'd think that can be worked out. Seems like a great idea as it's not using more farm land just the space above already used infrastructure.
But here in Alberta, those canals are probably within 35 km of some park so it'll be a no-go [emoji50]