[PaulDavisThe1st]

The article claims that the plan described could produce 5MAF / year (the entire allocation of Colorado River water for California). There's no explanation I could find of where this water will come from. The Salton Sea itself only holds 1.5MAF.

The title also seems a bit grandiose. "The US Southwest" for most people I think extends at least as far as the I25 corridor up through NM and CO, and for some it might even reach into western TX. The plan described would really have very little impact on the overall water situation here, even if it did actually live up to its claim of effectively freeing up CA's Colorado allocation.

[bryanlarsen]

The second hand drawn map shows the source pumping station at the Sea of Cortez.

[NegativeLatency]

Looks like it comes from the Gulf of California in one of the drawings