2015 Feb Rain Los Angeles and Rio Hondo Rivers
Catch n Filter Rain Water Everywhere
Every river bed channel in Southern California, the Rio San Gabriel, Rio Hondo, Compton and the main LA River can be used to be the perfect catch of all trash and water from rain run off forever. Let's not be the generation that is blamed for the extinction of the human race due to flagrant shortsightedness for profit thinking and short term solution failures. In Los Angeles alone when winter storms come in Jan\Feb the total volume of rain water partially fills the river beds due to drought with free rain water. We can redesign the channels here and globally to catch all the rain water the earth provides for FREE. Duh! If we do have some sort of freak weather and it rains year round for decades due to global warming from carbon monoxide emmisions from gas vehicles or whatever it is matters not really we will have at least put in place a system to collect it all and the left over can be used to flood the deserts every day. We make every continent with cities of the like catch...
LA River bed 52 miles long 200-400 feet wide bottom, 400-600 feet wide top, 20-35 feet deep, moving at approx. 30-35 mph. total gallons of water ? LxBWxTWxAD=X not including water from side river beds dumping into it,
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what is the volume of water wasted per rain storm? anyone know?
What the river beds\viaducts need is lights at the intersections and bridges. As it passes through the heart of cities at night unbeknownst to millions of sleeping humans the amount of water wasted per rainstorm is mind boggling. Dirty? Yes, Cleanable and recyclable? Yes. Trillions of gallons out to sea unfiltered and full of only god knows what, but defiantly reusable. IF we can remove salt from the ocean water, a very bad idea by the way, we can surely reclaim this water every winter, the rain isn't just to clean up the viaducts trash out to Long Beach, or any of the other rivers... clean up all the riverbeds w a volunteer program using everyone and anyone in trade for free food medicine water and shelter and we then have a water gathering system instead of a water run off system doing nothing but wasting water.
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