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What would be the benefits/ problems with a continent wide underground aqueduct system?

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Let's imagine America some years in the future where technology has advanced to the point where we can easily create a nation wide underground aqueduct system. Pavement is porous and allows a certain amount of water to seep through it into the aqueduct system. The sewers are designed so that the water can flow directly into the aqueduct. And if the weather is too severe, tanker train cars that can haul away the water to be dumped directly into the aqueduct system. The reason for this is because if it has to go to the water plant first, it risks clogging up the entire system, and still having too much water overall. Anyone in any part of the country can draw from the aqueduct system, with the understanding that any water drawn out needs to be cleaned first.

The big picture benefits are easy to see for me: anywhere there's drought would be able to get water. Anywhere there's flooding would have much less problems, and sometimes none at all.

Maybe I'm missing something on the benefits

But what would the problems be outside water rights disoutes?

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