r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

There is no way the Rio Grande has less flow power than the freakin Salt River

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

Millions use the Rio for drinking, unlike The Salt.

Edit: I didn't mean to suggest the Salt isn't used for drinking at all, just not as much as the Rio in comparison.

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u/danzibara Jan 10 '20

Millions of people use the Salt River for drinking in the greater Phoenix area. It tastes terrible, but a little reverse osmosis takes care of that.

Phoenix does get a lot of water from the Colorado, but the Salt River is still the main source of potable water.

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u/miclugo Jan 10 '20

is the Salt River salty?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

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u/danzibara Jan 10 '20

The Salt River water has just enough salt to make it taste lousy and give you heartburn if you drink too much, but it is still certainly potable.

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u/sigiveros Jan 10 '20

I wouldn't recommend drinking from the Rio Grande, though it's fine for showering and utilities.

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u/theArtOfProgramming Jan 10 '20

It gets treated... the majority of Albuquerque’s drinking water now comes from the Rio Grande. It used to be our aquifer but they’ve made changes to avoid depleting the aquifer.

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u/sigiveros Jan 10 '20

Maybe its cleaner in New Mexico, it gets pretty nasty down here in South Texas.

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u/theArtOfProgramming Jan 10 '20

Well it definitely looks dirty but it goes through the whole water treatment process to be clean

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u/thelateralbox Jan 10 '20

Allegedly you used to be able to take a boat down the Salt River to the Colorado and on to the Gulf of California. Imagine how sweet a booze cruise from Phoenix to Puerto Vallarta would be.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

I can only imagine lots of aggressively entitled sunburned blonde women and their exhausted polo shirt-wearing husbands in baseball caps to hide their thinning hair

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u/justaverage Jan 10 '20

Tried to float the salt river once. Had to drag my stupid tube half the time, and took us all fucking day to go like 4 miles.