they say it will be at deadpool stage in less than 8 years at this rate
I understand people have varied levels of sympathy for western water tables and water rights, but that is the bread basket of this country.
I am surprised congress hasn't proposed a water pipeline, say from the mouth of the Mississippi thru a series of lakes with giant pumping stations in an attempt to maintain levels. Maybe that is pie in the sky and the cost would be outrageous, but we do it with oil pipelines.
I see all that flood water in the spring along the Mississippi and wonder why we don't try to capture it in some way.
I have always wondered this myself
The Corp is trying hard to re-establish the Delta marshes. That area also is a breadbasket of sorts and provides some hurricanes protection. Salt water intrusion has hurt it badly and that’s accelerating rapidly. Mississippi River outflows and fresh water diversions have helped some. Few folks realize that there’s a wier along the bottom of the Mississippi River that prevents salt water from migrating back up river to new orleans’ Water supply at low river stages.
There’s no easy answers but California should have been de-salinating in massive quantities long ago.
Another issue not being addressed is the condition of the ogalalla reservoir dropping considerably.
Folks in the Texas panhandle are having problems with their water wells and it’s pitting cattlemen against cotton farmers who irrigate.
