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Yet the West wants to "solve" their drought by shipping Mississippi over the Rockies. Maybe just stop farming water-intensive crops in the desert?

gerikson 4y ago
To be fair, while it's a bonkers idea, the plan would be to divert water from the Old River Control Structure to lessen the flow of water down the Achafalaya. This issue is further upstream.
- readthenotes1 4y ago
  The Mississippi at Memphis is extremely narrow--More of 200 m wide river than a mile wide river. Messing with the old river control structure several hundred miles away won't affect that at all
downvotetruth 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459622
- Vvector 4y ago
  But the idea keeps popping up. https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/14/sending-mississippi-water-west-feasible-experts-weigh/10282030002/ https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/14/... https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-west-solution-infrastructure/ https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-we... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/climate-change-west-mississippi-river-pipeline/10332092002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/climat...
  - downvotetruth 4y ago
    Yellow Journalism; North American Water and Power Authority Plan is mentioned in the USA link
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Maursault 4y ago
It'll be fine. We can restore the Mississippi with excess fresh water piped in from Florida.
stjohnswarts 4y ago
Whenever I bring this point up to my friends out west they get unduly angry and say there's plenty of water, everyone just needs to conserve although like 70-80% of it goes to agriculture
- tracerbulletx 4y ago
  Are your friends all farmers? Because everyone out here in the cities would be perfectly happy reducing agricultural usage.
  - twelve40 4y ago
    no, but a lot of people here are just hellbent on "conserving" a glass of water at a restaurant, even though human consumption is almost negligible compared to agriculture. I guess it makes them feel like they are making an impact. And yes, they do get very angry if anyone questions the logic behind that behavior.
  - Turing_Machine 4y ago
    > Because everyone out here in the cities would be perfectly happy reducing agricultural usage. At least until the food stops showing up at the store. But by then it will be too late.
    - twelve40 4y ago
      this country has 4,000,000 square miles of space. Are you trying to say that if we reduce planting in the desert, which is what this thread is about, there will be nowhere else left to grow food?
cyanydeez 4y ago
In Utah they solved it by praying for rain...

gerikson 4y ago

To be fair, while it's a bonkers idea, the plan would be to divert water from the Old River Control Structure to lessen the flow of water down the Achafalaya. This issue is further upstream.

readthenotes1 4y ago
The Mississippi at Memphis is extremely narrow--More of 200 m wide river than a mile wide river. Messing with the old river control structure several hundred miles away won't affect that at all

downvotetruth 4y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459622

Vvector 4y ago
But the idea keeps popping up. https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/14/sending-mississippi-water-west-feasible-experts-weigh/10282030002/ https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2022/08/14/... https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-west-solution-infrastructure/ https://grist.org/agriculture/drought-water-pipeline-cost-we... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/climate-change-west-mississippi-river-pipeline/10332092002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/15/climat...
- downvotetruth 4y ago
  Yellow Journalism; North American Water and Power Authority Plan is mentioned in the USA link
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Maursault 4y ago

It'll be fine. We can restore the Mississippi with excess fresh water piped in from Florida.

stjohnswarts 4y ago

Whenever I bring this point up to my friends out west they get unduly angry and say there's plenty of water, everyone just needs to conserve although like 70-80% of it goes to agriculture

tracerbulletx 4y ago
Are your friends all farmers? Because everyone out here in the cities would be perfectly happy reducing agricultural usage.
- twelve40 4y ago
  no, but a lot of people here are just hellbent on "conserving" a glass of water at a restaurant, even though human consumption is almost negligible compared to agriculture. I guess it makes them feel like they are making an impact. And yes, they do get very angry if anyone questions the logic behind that behavior.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago
  > Because everyone out here in the cities would be perfectly happy reducing agricultural usage. At least until the food stops showing up at the store. But by then it will be too late.
  - twelve40 4y ago
    this country has 4,000,000 square miles of space. Are you trying to say that if we reduce planting in the desert, which is what this thread is about, there will be nowhere else left to grow food?

cyanydeez 4y ago

In Utah they solved it by praying for rain...