WOULD YOU SUPPORT

A Solution to America’s Regional Water Shortages
from
Southern California to Georgia and All In Between
?

Although this proposed project depends upon only one candidate’s plan to put great emphasis on building new nuclear power plants for both economic and environmental reasons, the shortage of adequate and reliable supplies of fresh water is a universal problem which cuts across all social, economic and political lines. With that in mind, it is recommended and requested that your support for this plan be communicated ASAP as outlined at the end of this material.

The Transcontinental Water Supply System
Plan Overview:

Senator John McCain has been given this national infrastructure plan for a transcontinental fresh water distribution system that would eliminate critical fresh water shortages in America. The plan will also provide water where it is not currently available in adequate quantity across the arid Southwest. This plan “dove-tails” exceptionally well with his already-announced plan for as many as 45 new nuclear power plants. Additional opportunities for locating some of the nuclear power plants in water-starved areas are greatly improved by incorporating this Transcontinental Water System into a synergistically-complimenting integrated plan which includes several of those nuclear plants.

A primary reason why this plan may not have yet been reveled could most likely be attributed to the fact that Senator McCain is so focused on “staying on message” in his campaign. Disclosing this plan would bring questions about its details which would detract from the primary elements of his campaign.

Consequently, this plan is presented here for your consideration. This new American “asset” would dramatically improve the United States’ infrastructure and would solve the fresh water shortage problems from California to Georgia.

Because of the critical need for agricultural irrigation and clean fresh water for human consumption, the importance of this Transcontinental Water System can not be over emphasized.

The enormity of this project’s scope of work would comprise approximately 20% of the 100,000 jobs projected for Senator McCain’s 45 nuclear power plant program over the next twenty years. The civil and hydraulic systems of the Transcontinental Water System portion of this integrated system will account for many thousands of additional jobs representing a substantial addition to the senator’s stated goal to create new domestic jobs and boost the economy.

The time has come to support and build this Transcontinental Water System project because the critical water shortage in Southern California is threatening agricultural production of our food supply while it competes with the demands for water by our increasing population centers in the Southwest. Two major bonus’s of an integrated Water and Nuclear Power project is that it makes it possible to locate new nuclear power plants anywhere along or near to the routing of the pipes in otherwise arid locations. And, all the many thousands of additional new jobs created for design, construction, and operation of the Transcontinental Water Supply System will remain inside the United States.

In Summary: This plan is a “Win, Win, Win” opportunity for America.

If you agree with the merits of this proposed solution to America’s fresh water shortages problem and you would like to voice your support of this monumental water project, you are invited and encouraged to IMMEDIATELY pass on this document to as many others as you can. Please, be sure to include sending this material to your newspapers, TV stations, and congressional leaders in addition to your email contacts.


The Plan’s Conceptual Physical and Functional Details:


By pumping water both east and west from the Mississippi River somewhere near Memphis, Tennessee an enormous improvement in our country’s fresh water supply condition could be provided. Plus, having the water within the system, there is great flexibility in where the future nuclear power plants can be located.

Most importantly, several operating efficiencies would be realized with a planned integration of nuclear power and the water transfer system when they are developed as a coordinated and integrated system.

In addition to transferring water to Southern California and to Georgia, clean fresh water could be supplied from each of the power plants and reservoir locations and in between. Domestic-grade water could be economically processed by at least two of these proven processes:
1) The distillation process could utilize the waste heat from the power plants making it very cost effective. And, therefore, it also has the potential of eliminating the need for the “signature” cooling towers characteristic of conventional nuclear plants.
2) The second system – reverse osmosis – operates on electric power that could be supplied by the systems power and its raw water. The added advantage of reverse osmosis systems (RO) over the distillation process is that it can be located remotely and fed by unconditioned raw water for agricultural use and only the amount required for domestic use would be “split off” for being processed by the “RO” system thereby saving energy and maintenance costs.
The economic advantage of using already “fresh” water from the interior of the country for both agriculture irrigation and for human consumption will be realized by significantly reducing the construction and operating costs of sea water desalinization facilities on either coast. This plan would avoid the placement of new desalinization plants along the sea shore coast lines where prime property and environmental considerations make them undesirable This system brings the water from the interior of the country to the existing water distribution channels,

A number of nuclear power plants and their associated water reservoirs could be located near the system’s pipe line’s routing wherever appropriate. Because the power plants could be cooled by the water being pumped through the system, the water in the system’s reservoirs may allow the elimination of many of the enormous “signature” cooling towers that function by wastefully consuming evaporating cooling water. With this plan’s concept, the heat from the plants could (or, at least significantly) be dissipated through ambient cooling provided by the reservoirs and distribution pipe - if not through water distillation systems.

The overwhelmingly greatest economic advantage of the concept of integrating nuclear power with the water system is realized by virtue of the power plants providing power to two “customers”. The primary daytime user would be all the commercial customers connected to the national power distribution grid. And, the other user / customer would be the proposed Transcontinental Water System. The primary advantage of the Transcontinental Water System is that it can draw its power during “off-peak” and night times to whatever level is available to it at any given time. The flexibility of the Water System exists due to the “buffer” or volumetric “surge” capacity of the reservoirs’ non-critical pumping schedules.

Nuclear Power with The Water System makes a perfect “marriage”.

Additionally, some of the nuclear-generated energy consumed in elevating the pumped water as it travels westerly can be recouped by new hydro-electric turbines as the water drops from the higher elevation just east of Lake Mead as it descends into it. And, then, additional power can be recouped from the new system’s water flow as it exits Lake Mead through generators in Boulder Dam.

It is envisioned that two or more large-diameter pressurized steel pipes be provided for redundancy and for maintenance requirements. The routing of the systems primary pipes is proposed to generally “shadow” Interstate I-40.

It is envisioned that the two terminus of the system would be Jordon Lake near Durham, NC and Lake Mead, NV. (not Lake Powell because that flow would have to go through the Grand Canyon. and, there is the controversy concerning the Glen Canyon Dam, itself.) (If this system is built, the rationale to maintain the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell may thereby be eliminated.) And, of course, water could be “tapped off” to other destinations from along the main lines wherever required for regional consumption along the way, as mentioned above.

Further, it is also envisioned that very large pairs of reservoirs be located between or near the plants and pumping stations for ambient cooling and the buffering of volumetric water “surges” between pumping stations. The reservoirs would allow independent pumping scheduling and “inventorying” of fresh water between periods of surplus supply and periods of higher demand. Reservoirs will provide both the required cooling and water clarification / settlement functions. Plus, the reservoirs’ aggregate capacities should total well over a year’s throughput volume. And, the reservoirs could provide significant civic recreation and development opportunities. (Pairs of reservoirs would allow for alternate usage during periods of sludge disposal if required.)


Summary

Current and recent critical shortages of fresh water in Southern California and Georgia show that America’s traditional natural fresh water sources and delivery systems have reached their limits for providing a sufficient and reliable supply for both human and agricultural uses.

In the absence of technology for inexpensively converting large amounts of sea water to fresh water, immediate and drastic measures are required to prevent even greater and greater costs and competition for diminishing fresh water – a problem which is exacerbated by climate changes that are impacting snowfall and rainfall patterns causing flooding and droughts across the country.

With the currently proposed McCain plan for accelerating and expanding a conversion to nuclear power, now is exactly the point in time for our best opportunity to address this critical problem. The solution can be achieved by optimizing an integrated solution to generating cleaner nuclear power that diminishes our use of fossil fuels while providing the critically required supply of fresh water to wherever it is needed across the southern portions of the United States.

America critically needs the capability to redistribute fresh water from where and when it is found in excess to where it is required for the general benefit of the country’s food supply and growing population concentrations. The importance of building the Transcontinental Water Supply / Redistribution System will surely rank in importance with the major flood control and hydroelectric power projects of the past.


A Call to Action

If you agree that this proposed Transcontinental Water System is required, and REQUIRED NOW, it is imperative to show your support IMMEDIATELY by:

Sending this material to your email contacts, to your local newspapers and TV news offices and to your State and Federal Congressmen.

Your support is critical from now to the presidential election November 4th


John Warnke, San Diego County, CA