[topher]

Note there are probably data from NOAA that could be found.

And I would trust folks in Texas/Louisiana working out the details, and keeping the Federal Government out of this except to provide funding.

[Da Coyote]

“...and keeping the Federal Government out of this except to provide funding.”

Heh! I’m waiting for some ill-educated low IQ eco-Nazi to start a movement to stop any water pipelines.

Followed shortly by the Obamadork/Holder collection of clown felons to back the movement up with their typical lying and corruption.

Wanna bet?

[FatherofFive]

This really makes sense. Instead of sending the water to the Gulf of Mexico, send it to Texas

[cripplecreek]

keeping the Federal Government out of this except to provide funding.

Better yet, let the people of Louisiana and Texas pay for it.

[deport]

What makes you think Texas doesn't have rivers and reserviors?

There are 3,700 named streams and 14 major rivers that meander through 191,000 miles (mi)
of Texas landscape. These important aquatic ecosystems play a major role in protecting water
quality, preventing erosion, and providing nutrients and habitat for fish and wildlife.
Along the way, water that eventually flows into seven major estuaries supports over 212 reservoirs,
countless riparian habitats, wetlands, and terrestrial areas. Each year Texas rivers and
streams provide recreational opportunities to millions of Texans and visitors from all
around the world.

The 14 major Texas rivers are the: Canadian, Red, Brazos, Sulphur, Trinity, Sabine, Neches,
San Jacinto, Guadalupe, Lavaca, San Antonio, Colorado, Nueces, and the Rio Grande. These
major rivers form a series of 13 major river basins, which consist of the Brazos, Canadian,
Colorado, Guadalupe, Lavaca, Neches, Nueces, Red, Rio Grande, Sabine, and Trinity river basins.

[BitWielder1]

Aqueducts? What are we, Romans from around year 1? Come on.
We have pipeline technology. Use it.

[WayneLusvardi]

If this ever becomes more than a pipe dream, I would suggest studying the Colorado River Aqueduct which transports water from the Colorado River 350 miles or so into urban Southern California. It has 5 water lift stations powered by cheap hydropower from Hoover Dam. So water pumps water uphill. Water is often free but catching it, conveying it and treating it amounts to its price. If there is an initial price for the water then that may make the proposal not cost effective. Regional water systems are the way to provide more reliability. Texas is planning some ocean water desalting plants but then the water has to be pumped uphill and Dallas is too far to make conveying such water economically feasible.

[ckilmer]

Further north the thing to do would be to send water from the Mississippi tributaries during spring flood March to June to South Pass in Wyoming and add a lot more water to the southwest.

All you’d need most years to stop the flooding on the Mississippi is to slice off the top ten feet of water at flood stage. (there would be years when you’d need to slice off 20 feet.)

So instead of paying the army corp of engineers billions to maintain the dikes and billions to FEMA to pay for flood damage— you’d simply divert the money to pay for a big water diversion project.

[Ben Ficklin]

The book Cadillac Desert was published in 1986 and this book pointed out the coming problems with water supply in the western US. The book also covered the draw down of the Ogallala aquifer of the western plains.

The Ogallala provides a lot of water for irrigation in the Texas panhandle as far south as Midland. Texas considered the problems with the falling level and how that would affect the Texas ag economy.

In 1988 Texas did a feasibility on pumping water from the mouth of the Miss river via pipeline up to Possum Kingdom lake. From there, the Brazos river channel would be re-engineered so that the water would reach Lubbock, and then be distributed thru out the panhandle for irrigation.

Needless to say, it was not feasible, but the problem of the falling level of the Ogallala aquifer has not gone away.

You may recall a few years ago Boone Pickens and Mesa Water were given water rights from the Ogallala and were trying to sell that water to San Antonio or DFW. They eventually sold those water rights to 6-7 municipalities in the panhandle who needed it because Lake Meredith was going dry.