In the Southwest of the US there is a drought. Arizona is about half-way through an expected 25 year drought. The two fastest growing large U.S. cities are in the SW - Phoenix and Las Vegas. We get the majority of our water from the Colorado River. Interestingly, we get the water before the folks in Colorado.
In the Midwest, there is a flood from time to time. 1993 was bad and this past weekend didn't look too good either. In 1991 we fought the Gulf War and helped rebuild Kuwait. In 2001 we fought another Gulf War and are rebuilding Iraq.
What if Presidents Clinton and Bush had used this time and money since 1993 to build a series of pipelines to move water from high flood areas like the Mid-West, New Orleans, etc. to chronically thirsty areas like the Southwest? Think of how different Katrina aftermath would have been.
I know you are scoffing and saying, "Jeff has lost his mind." Why would the government build a pipeline to move water? I say we build one because water is more important than oil and we built an oil pipeline that worked just fine.
Building it would create jobs that actually served a purpose. Insurance companies might even help pay the freight if they saw a way to save billions of dollars endlessly rebuilding homes, businesses, etc. in high flood areas.
Maybe the next president or congress will quit rebuilding other countries and rebuild our own, creating jobs along the way. Wouldn't that be nice?
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The outcome of gulf war was that Kuwait signed contract on 99 years that all their oil will be exclusively exported to USA.
We are yet to see outcome of current war - I'm sure there will be one.
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