You can argue all you want about wind power, solar power, energy independence and global warming, but the fact is our critical resource is water and we are running short. Go tell that to the folks along the Mississippi these days or in North Jersey a few weeks ago and they will laugh at you. On the other hand the people dealing with a drought in Texas may have a different view. Southern California is draining the Colorado dry and Lake Mead is shrinking. To grow our food we have turned deserts into productive agriculture. We have also turned deserts into water gulping cities, but we have yet to deal with the unintended consequences.
At any point in time it seems we have an overabundance of water in one part of the Country and a drought in another. To deal with excess water rushing to the sea, we flood hundreds of acres of farmland wasting not only water but the valuable land.
Is there a better way? The Romans had the answer to getting water where it is needed, aqueducts. While we are skilled at taking water from here to use there over relatively short distances, perhaps we need to think more strategically and heaven forbid for the longer term. Energy independence is not going to do us much good if there is no water to grow food or to drink.
Leave windmills and solar panels to entrepreneurs. Instead of spending government debt on tax credits for electric cars, let’s build aqueducts so water we don’t need here we can quickly move there. Instead of blowing up levees, we can open a flood gate and redirect the water where it is needed at the moment. High speed rail may sound cool but getting somewhere an hour faster balanced against the benefits of greatly diminished flooding and water to mitigate droughts seems like a no brainer to me.
No doubt this will cost more than we can imagine and take longer than anyone will remember, but think of all the billions we can save by not paying claims on flood insurance ten times over.
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100% yes we need to figure out how to get water from one place to the other. Think of New Mexico or Arizon with the water from the Mississippi. We also loose gallons of water in Cali do to the tall mountains. Think you you removed the Top 100 to 200 feet of the mounts all the mositure that would move into places like Arizona. It would also stop ll the flooding in Cali.
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