I’m not saying that, either. I’m saying, we don’t need a nationwide top-down one-size-fits-all solution to a problem unique to the LA basin. That’s where we water-rich states got stuck with low-flow toilets and other stupid garbage.
I would support siphoning off ten-twenty feet of water from the Mississippi during flood stages from March-June and pumping it to several places including west Texas, the Ogalala aquifer in eastern Colorado and over south pass in southwest Wyoming.
This would both serve as flood control on the Mississippi as well as providing water for points west.
This dual purpose was the original intent of the Hoover dam on the Colorado.
Likely this job will have to wait until portable nukes make electricity much cheaper and power plants drop in easy to post.
As it is this would be money better spent than the current policy of spending 4 billion dollars annually by the Army corps of engineers to dike the Mississippi and do FEMA disaster relief and flood plain buy outs.