Since the cycle of Great Droughts in North America follows a pattern similar to that of China, it only makes sense to build a canal to connect the rivers of the Northern Plains with the rivers of the Southern Plains.
NOTE: You usually don't have a Great Drought in the East, West, South and North simultaneously. They move around from area to area.
Instead somebody wasted all the money on windmills.
Billions on windmills and power lines that guarantee us blackouts next summer.