Drought relief

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

Several years ago I was operations officer for Sun is a 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 – 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?

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 along US Highway 40 from the Mississippi River to Lake Mead. Pumping night and day would also allow storage of water and allow drainage of flooded areas in the lower Missippippi River watershed area.

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

This should also supply provide work for thousands of people.