perhaps a trans continental pipeline to take water from flood zones to areas of severe drought.
what can the environMENTALists complain about that.
But we only have ten years until the oceans dry up!
Ted Danson told us 20 years ago!.............
Citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi south of the Old River Control Structure don’t need all that water.
Says who?
Once you start lowering the Mississippi, then you start restricting commerce and shipping through the entire Midwest. That would affect a lot more than "just" Louisiana and Mississippi.
But Democrats hate pipelines. This one wouldn’t spill oil but could interfere with migration of rodents, kill worms, disrupt indigenous plants...
The EIS would take so long that Powell and Mead would be dry before the first weld was in place on the pipe.
That makes too much sense - you’ll probably have to wait until President Trump is back in office.
The author has no clue about the engineering involved.
Who is going to pay for this pipe dream and how many trillions will it cost?
California is a money pit!
Only problem is it would take 10 years to build by the time the envioweanies are done with their law suits, environmental impact plans, construction, and delays. Mead has 24 months before Hoover stops generating and Vegas goes dry.
That’s just begging more people to move to CA to drink the water. Let CA build desalination plants, limit or remove illegals coming into the state to soak up the resources, let them conserve. Better yet, CA was a desert clime when it was found, let it be one again for all I care. Not one dime to save their sorry butts.
Seems to have merit.
But...the environmental impact studies, the feasibility studies, the bonds structure meetings, the financing committee decision processes...would take 254 years to complete.
AND, it would never get done because of "budget overruns" due to all the graft and corruption that would be rampant.
As a far simpler example...do a search on "Big Dig" aka Ted Williams Tunnel Project.
I’m not a greenie but Las Vegas is a fake town. Wasting water for a circus act. If they run out of water,it would force the Rats to move out of there and help Nevada get back to it’s hardier roots.
Um, isn’t the elevation of Lake Powell higher than the Mississippi? That is a lot of pumping for 250,000 gallons a minute.
FWIW——— Lake Powell is about 1500 miles from the Mississippi.
Because that would make common sense and foil obiden’s tyranny.
Maybe if California didn’t commit environmental terrorism by allowing unrestricted illegal immigration and taking on MILLIONS of citizens to gain political power, far beyond what their states resources could handle and draining other states reserves beyond the ability to recharge they wouldn’t have to steal water from eastern states.
I wrote a business plan for such a private project (since the government is so obviously not doing its job).
It penciled out nicely.
Then I pinched myself as to who it would benefit the most and I immediately woke up.
Seriously, though, I reviewed such a possibility years ago; seemed feasible.
Kinda seems to me that this clown needs to look at a map. It’s over 1400 miles from the Old Control Structure to Lake Powell. What kind of pumps can handle 250,000/gallons per second and maintain that flow for 1400 miles? How big would the diameter of the pipe have to be to handle that kind of load?
Begs the question:
The libs would never allow it even if it were feasible.