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'Solar Canals' Could Save 63 Billion Gallons of Water Annually in California alone

'Solar Canals' Could Save 63 Billion Gallons of Water Annually in California alone

Adding solar panels over waterways could help make a big change toward sustainability.   With approximately 4,000 miles (6,437 km) of canals transporting water throughout California, the state has plenty of real estate on which to build solar panel infrastructure, a report by Popular Science explains. It turns out that fitting panels above the waterways using suspension cables also provides a surprisingly powerful benefit for the canals themselves. Researchers from the University of California Merced and University of California Santa Cruz used simulations to assess the economic viability of building a "solar canal" network in the state by utilizing one of the world's largest...

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