I'm from New Orleans. The author is dead wrong. The city of New Orleans gets its drinking water from the Mississippi. And the city of New Orleans is the biggest

I'm from New Orleans. The author is dead wrong. The city of New Orleans gets its drinking water from the Mississippi. And the city of New Orleans is the biggest port in the hemisphere based on Mississippi River traffic which is it's economy. Anyway, I highly doubt the modern US government has the capability to build a thousand miles of pipeline over the continental divide. Although it would be interesting to have California dependent on red states. A better solution is to just do nuclear desalination from the ocean like the Arabs do.