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Each year trillions of gallons of water flow unused to the Pacific Ocean from the Columbia River. It is possible using existing technology to capture a very small amount of that fresh water and route it to the water deficient areas of California using a large diameter piping system.

WSIOL Incorporated, (an acronym for “Water Seeks Its Own Level” which is the driving principle of the proposed water supply system), was formed for the express purpose of providing fresh water to California without costly and inefficient desalinization plants. It would have little if any environmental impact. Further, although the transport of water is the primary thrust of the project, we are considering the possible ability to generate electricity during the water delivery process. The WSIOL project is intended to be accomplished without any government funding.

This piping system will be manufactured aboard a modified large container ship that is about 900 feet in length.

This piping system will be manufactured aboard a modified large container ship that is about 900 feet in length.

The entire manufacturing process is planned to occur onboard that ship and the piping would be extruded and laid on the river bottom to the ocean and south along the coast of Oregon and California, through the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay until it reaches the California Aqueduct intake in the Central Valley of California. Other discharge points are under consideration with the intent of alternately providing continual flow into aquifers to replace the diminishing groundwater in the state.

During the pipe manufacturing and placement process a system of barges and supply vessels would transport the raw material from shore to the ship that would continuously manufacture pipe. It is envisioned that the piping would be nearly seamless except for points where electrical generation systems could be installed in the water flow and power sent ashore via underwater electrical transmission cables.

The entire piping system will be manufactured and anchored to the ocean floor approximately three miles offshore at depths of about 300 feet. Made of a material that will not deteriorate and isn’t an environmental or pollution problem.

In that it is a system that could create electricity as the water flows to California it is a true environmentally “green” concept. The only energy use of the system is during construction. Once completed there is no other power requirement.

This is not the entire answer to the water supply problems in California, but it is the best and most cost-effective method possible. Conceived around a kitchen table the WSIOL group has and is conducting investigations into all aspects of the pipeline installation and use. This includes possible manufacturers, naval engineering and ship modifications, supply tug and barge availability, and the methods for the pipe to pass through the four dams in the Columbia River.

Fresh water that originates at the Columbia Lake in Canada and from the State of Idaho, and then passes between Washington and Oregon then into California’s aqueduct and aquifer systems is a solution so simple when one remembers, “Water Seeks Its Own Level”. WSIOL – The best solution.

Tehachapi East Afterbay water project. DWR. Project #1601.

Fresh water that originates at the Columbia Lake in Canada and from the State of Idaho, and then passes between Washington and Oregon then into California’s aqueduct and aquifer systems is a solution so simple when one remembers, “Water Seeks Its Own Level”. WSIOL – The best solution.

After years of work on the WSIOL project the Turkey to Cyprus water project was completed that validates the concept we’ve designed. Watch the videos here to get a further understanding of how this system would work. The Turkey to Cyprus project delivers a fraction of the water proposed by WSIOL, Inc. for California, but the method and testing of the PDFP pipe extrusion is confirmed.

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