For many years now, I have advocated a nationwide water redistribution system. Not only do we have periods of severe drought (not enough H2O), but there are other times when we have too much rain and floods (too much H2O). This can cause billions of dollars in damage to the U.S. economy as entire towns, communities and rural farms get wiped-out. Therefore, too much excess water needs to be redistributed not only in space, but also in time (storage system) until it is needed. We need a major public works project to do this. Although it would cost billions, it would pay for itself many times over by preventing catastrophic flooding. But politics would be a major obstacle, and some residents would not like being uprooted from their homes in order to construct the large network of canals and pipelines necessary.

For many years now, I have proposed building a network all around the Missisippi and it’s smaller tributary rivers. This would drain excess water and help to relieve the pressure off the earthen dikes so that they will be less likely to break.

I once considered photovoltaic solar power to pump the water around. This way, the distribution system would not be dependent upon fossil fuels. However, the fusion focus device may move vast volumes of water even more efficiently.

Another political opposition may come from the environmentalists. The plumbing of some rivers and streams may have to be re-routed. This could result in some environmental drawbacks to my idea (such as local fish species in certain rivers affected, and etc.).

For example, in order to reduce the cost of building canals and pipelines, existing water courses could be modified. The Missouri River could be made to reverse itself (flow upstream) across the State of Missouri away from the Missisippi River. This may require the river bottom dredged deeper in some places (other streams may be diverted as well).

And just why would you want to do that?

Which brings me to my next idea.The object of all this is to divert vast quantities of excess rainwater (and potentially disasterous flood water) from the Missisippi and other tributary rivers all the way to the Ogallala aquifier. Then injection wells could inject the water into the underground Ogallala reservoir to replenish it.

In my original plan, I once again thought about solar-powered injection wells to accomplish the task. So that the entire system would not be dependent upon fossil fuels. But the fusion focus could do the job just as good or better.

When it comes to megawatts of installed capacity, what would be cheaper to build: zillions of photovoltaics or just a few fusion focus powerplants?

The answer to that is that fusion focus would probably allow more water pumping capacity installed more cheaply.

So in the final analysis, the Ogallala aquifier would become a huge water storage device. You could simply reverse the pump and start taking water back out when needed. Or have separate wells both injecting and retrieving at the same time. Or some of the water from the diverted rivers and streams could go directly to irrigation without having to be stored underground. Especially after the Ogallala aquifier has done been replenished back up to a healthy level. This would reduce how much water would have to be extracted from the aquifier.