“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.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
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I’m not talking about california here. I’m talking rather about Utah Nevada, Arizona.
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.
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I absolutely agree on this. But they do have to get the price of desalination down. The Israelis are doing it for about $500@acre foot, sometimes a little less. The new posiden plant in southern california which is 20 years in the making and still not complete will cost over $1600@acre foot but likely will come in nearer to $2000@ acre foot. Those kinds of costs were too expensive for even Santa Barbara a decade ago but now they’re getting desperate so they’re talking about turning their $2000@ acre foot desal plant on.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
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There is a need for flood control on the Mississipi River for a couple months of the year. And there is a dire need for water in Nevada and Arizona as Lake Meade and Lake Powell dry up.
I don’t know if you know your history of the Colorado river but the impetus for the dam there was originally because of a massive flood in the first decade of the 20th century that created the Salton Sea. Hoover Dam was originally designed for both flood control as well as water distribution and power generation.
You create synergies by meeting the needs of the Mississippi Delta people for flood control by sending water at flood stage to people in the South west who need water.