California is getting closer to creating a massive new reservoir within a huge natural Colusa County valley that's shaped like an elongated oval bowl. <br />When completed.<br /> the long-proposed, $4 billion Sites Reservoir will hold enough water to feed the needs of five million homes a year or a half million acres of farmland.<br /> That's enough water to cover every square inch of San Francisco 50 feet deep.<br />Currently, there's a big gap between the supply of water in California and the demand for it.<br /> But, if you close off a 300-foot wide gap and another one just like it, <br />you could easily create one of the largest reservoirs in all of California.<br /> In fact, it would be the seventh-largest mega reservoir.<br />California's New $4BN Mega Reservoir<br />Water in California<br />Can they do anything about it?<br />Stage 1<br />The Sites Reservoir<br />How will it be built?<br />Are there any drawbacks?<br />#megaprojects #construction #skyscrapers
