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The outflow of the Mississippi River is literally like six or seven times larger than from all our river systems combined, to put it in perspective. We’d proba
by stephen_g 8y ago
The outflow of the Mississippi River is literally like six or seven times larger than from all our river systems combined, to put it in perspective.
We’d probably have to build heaps of desalination plants around the coast and pipe it in to put more people further out.
- reaperducer 8y agoThe outflow of the Mississippi River is literally like six or seven times larger than from all our river systems combined That's a fun bit of trivia. But I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion. The sources of New York and Los Angeles water are up to a thousand miles away from the Mississippi River watershed. Neither gets its water from there.
- stephen_g 8y agoThe point of my example is that just one river system out of several in the US is many times bigger than all the rivers in Australia. What I mean is that the problem is not the distance, but that sufficient water just isn't available anywhere in the continent.