Not really jumping on your case, but I've often wondered at people, such as yourself and many others on this same thread, posting this stuff off the top of their heads without giving it a second's thought. The existing pump facilities, which unfortunately aren't working, have a combined 22 million gallon/minute capacity. I've seen estimates that even if they were all working 24 hours/day, it would take 15 days to pump New Orleans dry. By comparison, a top of the line fire engine has about a 1000 gal./min. capacity, so all we have to do is find 22,000 fire engines and send them to New Orleans to get the job done in the same time.
Hmmmm,...I wonder if there are any nearby oil field geologic rock formations that need water injection in those magnitudes.