3 Jun 2022 10:44 am
Haven't you noticed that huge amounts of water would have to be pumped over the high plains to get it to the Colorado or some other Western river? And wherever you choose to store the water, that is land that belongs to someone who would be deprived of it forever.Cannonpointer » 02 Jun 2022, 11:14 am » wrote: ↑ An even more elegant solution would be the construction of a few large retention ponds in the midwest, capturing the annual nuisance flood waters of the yallerstone, missouri, mississippii et al, and pumping it over the rockies into lake powell in utah - headwater of the colorado.
That's what God's servant, Adam, would do: say to the Mississippi, "You were fashioned to feed the Gulf of Mexico, but to serve the interests of human kind, some of your waters will feed the Pacific, by the power of my word and by the stewardship granted me by our Heavenly Father."
The waters shipped west could be daylighted at various stops along the route, creating residential, industrial, agricultural and commercial opportunities. The monies earned by such daylighting, the monies saved from preventing annual nuisance floods and septennial catastrophic floods, and the monies derived from the sale of the rerouted waters in the arid southwest would all combine to easily justify the expense of the project. The resulting agricultural bounty would erase America's trade deficit.
This would require long term planners. Wall Street is obsessed with next quarter, and wall street governs this country, unelected.