Given the possibility of Gravity feed from Sea of Cortez through Laguna Salada and into Salton Sea (thereby refreshing both), it is but a short pipe journey plus desalination at the scale of Israel's desalination project to feed both the Colorado River Aqueduct (CRA to SoCal metropolitan areas using existing infrastructure) and to Lake Havasu with existing right of way.

Meanwhile, climate independent water to SoCal provides immediate relief to the CORB states via law-of-the-river distributions.

Gravity-feed seawater from Sea of Cortez to replenish both Laguna Salada and the Salton Sea and avoid  the lift across the Sierra. A win-win solution for the US and Mexico that requires good neighborly relations between the two.

Desalination and distribution can proceed in Phase-I, II using existing technologies as were proven in Israel, during the course of turning that desert state into a water-abundance economy.

The path proceeds through the Salton Sea toward the existing CRA (Colorado River Aqueduct), where desalination and discharge into CRA replaces CO River water for immediate climate-independent relief to SoCal and enabling emergency Law-of-the-River redistributions to feed both AZ (CAP) and Vegas, recently subject to massive cutbacks. Phase-II brings new water to Lake Havasu to feed the Imperial Dam network and Imperial Valley, Yuma Valley and Mexicali Valley. These together provide more than 90% of the American winter vegetable supply. Water also feeds the renewed vibrancy of the Colorado River Estuary and wildlife refuge.

* Brine extracted at pumping stations is a valuable resource: water plus minerals, or brine to directly support geothermal Li mining and aquifer replenishment. Brine must not be discharged into Sea of Cortez or any other basin.

The Path expands along the same RoW as in Phases I & 2.

Seawater continues to be desalinated, but we will have, by this time, developed new pipe technologies that are cheaper, last longer and are easier to install. Note that the Boulder (Hoover) dam was envisioned and funded before the enabling technologies were developed. This is also true for the Great Salt River: high temperature POU thermal power is capitalized on-site, so that ongoing OpEx is nominal. New pipe tech enables local industries to be created, alongside more efficient desalination and pumping.  There are no electrical conversion losses.

Brine continues its path toward the Great Basin becoming more concentrated at each pumping/desal milestone (3-5 pump stations in route) up the I-15 Corridor while distributions are made.

When the Great Basin rim is reached, canals transport concentrated brine by gravity to directly fill Great Salt Lake with the proper salinity mix (brine+fresh) to maintain the ecosystem needed for the brine shrimp that feed the migratory birds.

In the 7-10 years needed to refill Great Salt Lake to the robust 4,207' elevation, additional desalination plants will be built converting  GSL water to fresh water + crystalline mineral salts and precious metals. The freshwater will be distributed to critical headwaters in four states, rejuvenating key riparian ecosystems on the way to municipal and agricultural distributions.  Note that GSL in this scenario ceases to be an endorheic (closed basin) lake, and becomes a open reservoir system with managed elevation and managed salinity but also with multiple thriving estuaries.

Phase V follows the BNSF right of way across AZ into San Juan and San Luis headwaters en route to replenishing Rio Grande flows.

This water augmentation paradigm significantly differs from other approaches in that each drop is precious, and value is extracted multiple times; first in value from the minerals in the brine, then from the brine itself as a replenishing resource. While the freshwater first replenishes streambeds and headwaters, before utilizing existing infrastructure to support communities and regional agriculture.

Mineral harvesting and water sales revenues drive investment capital which expands the reach of the Water Abundance Economy.

Northern Expansion supplies water to:

(1) a feed from east shore Lake Havasu along the BNSF RoW through Flagstaff, AZ, Gallup NM, to Farmington NM to supply multiple native Tribes via the headwaters of the San Juan River. Then extend along the same RoW to Albuquerque, Santa Fe and thence to the headwaters of the Rio Grande at the Colorado San Luis Valley.

(2) Enlarge capacity at the Wyoming Green River Basin outlet to supplement the Colorado River drainage, so that Native Tribes, CO and NM can withdraw their unclaimed legal allotments.

(3) Nevada (Humboldt River), SW Idaho (Raft River) headwaters spurs from GSL pumping manifold sites (from Phase-II expansion).

Utah expansion supports:

• Fresh water to the I-15 corridor, Sevier River valley and Sevier Lake basin supporting growth of new communities and industries with affordable Utah housing. Utah Lake has a constant input supply that refreshes and rejuvenates the Lake, the Jordan River and its Farmington Bay estuary.

The demonstration of these water delivery systems with their enabling "Made in Utah" technologies will be exported around the world to alleviate hardship in communities suffering from energy and water poverty.