cheap thrill, you don't understand the scope of my plan. Desal is very, very expensive for the amount of water required, trillions of gallons. My plan would use canals, channels, trenches, pipes, pumps and syphons to move water all over the country to whereever its needed in any given season/drought/flood. Being gravity what it is, a lot of pumping could be required as well. We'd fill dry lakes, lakes that are drying up such as Mead and Powell, and aquafers. I'd even pump the Salton Sea back out to the ocean and refill with fresh water. That way you could go boating and sand duning at Glamis in the same week