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America Is Turning Abandoned Oil Pipelines Into Massive Water Highways

Abandoned oil pipelines are being reused for water, and that quiet shift could change how America tackles its water infrastructure crisis. In this video, we explore why “oil pipelines reused for water” sounds like an elegant fix—and why it’s anything but simple. You’ll get a clear, numbers-backed tour of the collision between two aging systems: millions of miles of fossil-fuel pipelines approaching the end of their design life, and a drinking-water network facing hundreds of billions in documented needs. We follow the most ambitious U.S. attempt at conversion, where a long-distance line is being repositioned to move Mojave groundwater—then zoom in on the unglamorous realities that determine whether these projects live or die. That includes what it actually takes to clean decades of petroleum residue out of a pipe, why compounds like BTEX turn “just run water through it” into a public-health engineering problem, and how standards and fragmented permitting can slow a technically feasible project to a crawl.  Project Mystery investigates the hidden forces behind infrastructure, energy, and the systems that shape modern life. © [Project Mystery] [2026]