Modern Tragedies

A PARADISE LOST

The Salton Sea

Once a freshwater lake, with the largest population of migrating birds, and richest fish stock in the United States.
Located right behind Los Angeles and San Diego, at its peak in the 1950s it attracted more visitors annually than Yosemite!

With salinity levels now 3X that of seawater, decades of political inaction and unimaginative proposals have left the region sorely in need of hope.

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A LEGENDARY SEA IN DECLINE

The Dead Sea

A dead sea since ancient times, freshwater inflows from the Jordan River have been diverted by farms and cities.

An $11B project to import water from the Red Sea in the south was cancelled in 2021 due to geo-political challenges.
With no active plans, the Dead Sea is set to evaporate away, having already receded by 35% from its 1930 shorelines.

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Breakthrough Innovations

$10M
Cost per mile of tunnel
1 mi/wk
Tunnel Boring Speed
12ft
Tunnel Diameter
760
cubic ft/s
Flow rate under gravity
A NEW GEO-ENGINEERING PARADIGM

Low Cost Tunnels

With explosive technological advances, a new era of infrastructure is dawning. Where tunnels once were the path of last resort, they are quickly becoming the best option to transport water...
- using direct routes enabling gravity fed systems
- minimizing pumping requirements
- mitigate project risk due to weather, property rights and land use conflicts

THE INSIGHT & INNOVATION
THE FRAMEWORK

A New Future

BEYOND HALF-MEASURES

Restore the seas, spin up an economic flywheel

SUPPRESSION
MITIGATION
RESTORATION

Plow over the exposed beaches, to bury salts and chemicals.
Create furrows to trap blown dust in order to reduce windborne particles.

Import water to offset evaporative losses and stop the decline in sea level.
Without removal of salts, the salinity levels inexorably rise leaving the waters inhospitable to fish and wildlife.

Import water, and pump out the brine to reduce salinity, creating a trophic cascade as nature returns and the ecosystem rebuilds and restores the shores.
Fish and wildlife return in abundance.

DECAY
EXPLOITATION
INVESTMENT

Wildlife and residents flee as the environment degrades, leaving the region economically depressed and devoid of a future

Imported water stabilizes the soils, and staves off economic collapse.
The region remains unattractive to live in, however mining and geothermal industries attract migratory workers with decent jobs

A rejuvenated ecological gem in the desert draws massive investment in tourism, real estate and recreation.
Land prices skyrocket and the region reaps a windfall for generations as the economic flywheel is set in motion

An Affordable Investment

AN INVESTMENT IN PERSPECTIVE

The tech is available,

The vision is affordable...

Can we muster the political will to build?

“There is nothing impossible to them that will try.”
- Alexander the Great

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