“Not going to happen, typical enviros: Green on the outside Red in the middle. They know what is right and the rest of us are too stupid to understand, that they are saving mother earth.”
And no one has the cajones to smack them on the nose with a newspaper and send them back under the porch, tail between their legs.
I would add something to all of this.
We have oil pipelines criss crossing the country. I would build secondary pipelines that would contain fresh water. On the coasts, build desalinization plants. In flood communities, build pumping stations.
We have enough water on this earth where any drout area would have desalized ocean water diverted to it. And in flood plains, we should have stations that would pump the water away from it.
Want a national infrastructure project that would open up new resources and working with private industry build new economies, this would be it.