In class we discussed Barcelona's water crisis in 2007. Out of the four options I thought that a water pipeline was the least feasible. It's just not practical because it uses a lot of other resources and energy to get water and Barcelona had a rare problem that didn't occur every year. If they did continue to use a pipeline to get water then the reservoir where the water was coming from would eventually run out. The next option that was unlikely of happening was getting the needed water from desalinization plants. I'm sure there are some of these built to help but from what I know about them they require a lot of energy and resources to built and produce fresh water. So you just don't get enough out of them from what you put in. I think that this technology has a lot of room for improvement and that one day it could be an excellent resource, but then we would have to worry about our salt water levels more. Another option that they had was water conservation. I think that they didn't have a choice in using this option and that it should always be used to some degree. What they used it with was the final option bulk water imports. This one made the most sense and I think would require the least energy out of the three, and this is what they did.
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