Drought relief

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Personal Point of View

This article contains my personal thoughts / feelings

I have been watching news coverage of disasters for years. Maybe it is time for someone to act on the following.

Several years ago I was operations officer for San Jose Search and Rescue. I am not interested in relief bashing or reporting. I am interested in relief and I have been espousing the following disaster plan for years. Why not prepare for emergencies instead of reacting to them?

Problem

It is 2014, and again we are in the middle of a major drought in California and water is being rationed. There are massive floods throughout the New England and Mississippi and Ohio River basins. Why do we not learn from the droughts of the 1970s?

2016 US Drought map

Solution

One of the major sources of municipal water for Southern California rural and agricultural areas is Lake Mead just outside of Las Vegas.

It would seem to me that construction of an underground or aboveground aqueduct from Charleston on the East Coast to Los Angeles, with a spur from Phoenix to Lake Mead.

Pumping night and day at a lower volume could allow storage of water and allow drainage of flooded areas in the lower Mississippi River watershed area.

This would also allow to pump water from the Mississippi east to the Atlantic and west to the Pacific at the same time.

Similar aqueducts could be built along other arterial highways to move much meet much needed water from places of flooding to places of drought.

Proposed pipe line map

And? This should also supply provide work for thousands of people.

See also Level Four - Disaster relief
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