How Does It Work

The International Water Grid will see all major rivers in the world diverting 3-5% of their outflows into the ocean for the purpose of re-foresting the desert.

Stage 1

1. 1. The process will commence with LAP Flo technology used to harvest river waters temporarily storing it before it is transported by tankers to the Water Hubs for irrigation purposes.
   2. This movement by first standard, then specially built tankers driven by primarily renewable energy designed for very large volume, deep-water and non-canal traversing routes will be used whilst the under-ocean pipelines are under construction. 
   3. These ships are designed to discharge their water cargo off shore to floating rigs.
   4. These rigs are connected by undersea pipes to the land-based Water Hubs for further distribution via renewable energy driven land-based piping systems providing drip irrigation to pre-grown plants to re-forest the arid lands.

Stage 2

1. 1. The under-ocean pipe systems will be up-scaled initially from the currently available 4m diameter to the new technology 10m diameter pipes to meet the required flow rates using the LAP Flo pumping system. 
   2. The natural buoyancy of the water and the small inward pressure differentials created by a “freshwater pipe in seawater” allows these special pipes to be laid at depths up to 4,000m. 
   3. The pipelines will be connected to floating rigs and under-ocean buffer storage in strategic transit areas to sectionalize the grid as a security measure and also act as intersections to redirect flow.
   4. Atolls challenged by rising sea levels along the international routes of these pipes will be buffered against rising seawater and utilized as transit points for freshwater storage.