perhaps a trans continental pipeline to take water from flood zones to areas of severe drought.
what can the environMENTALists complain about that.
Enviro-whackos have a fraudulent claim of an "endangered species" for every square acre in the U.S.
This began in the 80s to obstruct development.
“perhaps a trans continental pipeline to take water from flood zones to areas of severe drought.”
I said the same thing many years ago when I saw all the flooding from rives overflowing. Some of that water can flow to Texas and other Southwestern states for farming. Produce more of our own food for domestic use and export. Whole new economies will open up and flourish and millions of jobs will open with it.
You can also do this in other countries which are arid by nature. Few desalination facilities along the African coastline, piping clean water inland for consumption and farming. Plant millions of trees to sequester carbon.
Water is the new oil :-)
what...and disturb the habitat of western walking worms?? or midwest hoping frogs...or the northern black ant??
The problem is, that it could, eventually , be extended beyond just diverting occasional excessive flood water (some flooding is necessary from time to time to maintain the already damaged estuary ecosystem that in turn supports fisheries in the Gulf. Insufficient flow increases the salinity of the water, killing some critical vegetation and altering the balance of fish species. Army Corps of Engineers projects upriver to channelize the formerly meandering river led to many of the problems we have today, such as erosion of agriculturally vital soils upriver and the subsequent dead zone it off the coast.) Once the water supply becomes reliable, California will then become accustomed to having more water than nature provides, and will demand more and more, even when the Mississippi isn’t flooding, and they will get it because They have more votes in Congress than Louisiana. They will waste the water trying to grow more non-native vegetation, and for their agriculture at the expense of Louisiana and Mississippi’s fisheries. California will hike their population with more and more illegal and legal immigrants, and get even more representation in Congress. On the other hand, the prospect of sending Midwestern and Southern sewage to Nancy Pelosi is kind of amusing.
Wait til we have a wet year and all will be back to Normal—There is no “Climate Change” there is no Global Warming.