In this podcast I interview Angelina Cook, who has been working tirelessly for many years protecting the waters in Mt Shasta and McCloud area, where she is on the Water Council.
The water that flows to Los Angeles from the Owens Valley is 100% gravity fed. When a mountain got in the way they used closed pipe and created syphons. That is the case there.
In my case, we have a well and 100% of my water is pumped in gray pipes.
There is a lot of water that gets pumped uphill from northern california to southern california. Total energy per year is about 6,000 gigawatt to pump water. https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Power Total usage of power in California is about 260,000 gigawatt. So about 2.3 % of Californias energy usage goes to pumping water around. Annual power generated by California hydropower is about 21,000 gigawatt. https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/renewables_data/hydro/index_cms.php . So about 1/3 of Californias generated hydropower goes to pumping water around California.
The water that flows to Los Angeles from the Owens Valley is 100% gravity fed. When a mountain got in the way they used closed pipe and created syphons. That is the case there.
In my case, we have a well and 100% of my water is pumped in gray pipes.
There is a lot of water that gets pumped uphill from northern california to southern california. Total energy per year is about 6,000 gigawatt to pump water. https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Power Total usage of power in California is about 260,000 gigawatt. So about 2.3 % of Californias energy usage goes to pumping water around. Annual power generated by California hydropower is about 21,000 gigawatt. https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/renewables_data/hydro/index_cms.php . So about 1/3 of Californias generated hydropower goes to pumping water around California.