The solution to the drought for the southwest is to strip off the 10-20 feet of Missippi flood waters north of the Ohio river during flood stage March to June and pump them over to south pass in Wyoming. From there the water would roll south to refill Lake Meade and Lake Powell plus make a couple more lakes.
A similar program could send water to western Colorado and Nebraska to refill the Ogalla aquifer during spring flooding on the Mississippi.
Further south, a pipeline or canal could ship spring flood waters of Louisiana to Texas.
This would all be expensive work but the USA currently spends about 4 billion annually to fund Army corp of engineer flood control work on Mississippi and FEMA damage control.
Stop the flooding on the Mississippi by shipping the water to points west and Army Corp of Engineer and FEMA costs no longer apply.
Then of course too the refilling the Ogala Aquifer and shipping water to southwest solves a lot of problems there.
So for $5/barrel we could ship a product worth 5¢/barrel?
Quite a solution.
Or drop a pipe into a nice, big, high altitude lake, Yellowstone 7700’ so pumping is not an issue, siphoning will work just fine, run the pipe down Jackson Hole, across Wyoming into a tributary of the Colorado river.
Just ignore that volcano under the lake
Cool idea!
how about the columbia river?
“The solution to the drought for the southwest is to strip off the 10-20 feet of Missippi flood waters north of the Ohio river during flood stage March to June and pump them over to south pass in Wyoming. From there the water would roll south to refill Lake Meade and Lake Powell plus make a couple more lakes.”
This is all a bunch or B.S.
The way to mitigate the current droughts in the west is to massively build desalinization plants along the west coast, particularly along the California coast.
Once that build-out is sufficient for relieving west coast drought conditions, add enough plants to quit diverting Colorado River waters to California.
Then, in agreement with Mexico, build desalinization plants to send water into Arizona and New Mexico, from the Gulf of California, lowering THEIR use of Colorado River water and vastly deepleting underground sources.
Saudi Arabia is a desert kingdom with no water shortage - desalinization. Israel produces so much fresh water from desalization of sea water that it exports it.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
The west, with its vast Pacific coastline has plenty of water; it’s in the Pacific Ocean, they just need to go get it instead of building “high speed trains” to no where.
I can see you have put a lot of thought into this...I’m not knowledgeable about those things but it sounds good.
Two of the four highest-volume rivers in the world are in western Canada, emptying merrily into the Pacific Ocean.