Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Tasmodevil44]

JimmyT is absolutely correct. We will never solve any problems or have any real progress in this country anymore with all the closed – minded naysayers these days. What ever happened to the old – fashioned Yankee Ingenuity which America used to be famous for? Or are we going to continue to be a stagnating and slowly dying civilization that can’t even compete with foreign countries like Japan and China anymore?

I’m NOT talking about reducing the mighty Missisippi River to a tiny trickle like what they’ve done to the Colorado River in the West (they’ve completely slaughtered this river). Neither would it necessarily require huge dams. Plenty of water could still be allowed to flow downstream to maintain the delta and marsh areas. I’m talking about redirecting only the excessive rains that cause catastrophic flooding …. to replenish the Ogallala aquifier. This excessive amount of water spreads out across the land …. causing billions of dollars of damage to entire communities …. instead of going downstream to the delta or any marsh areas anyway.

As the Army Corps of Engineers discovered with it’s rejigging of the Everglades and lower Mississippi

The upper Mississippi area further upstream is NOT quite the same as the Everglades and lower Mississippi.

there are nasty consequences to short – circuiting the natural flood cycles.

What about the nasty cosequences of the floods themselves?

The water cycle is not a plumbing system.

Like I stated before already, the pre – existing system is already a type of natural plumbing system. However, sudden manmade changes to the natural plumbing system can indeed cause some problems …. due to nature’s inability to adapt to sudden changes fast enough. That’s why such a partial water diversion would not be a cure – all, but only a supplemental part of the solution to a much bigger problem.

Desalination of seawater could also play a role in the overall water problem. Provided of course, that environmentalists don’t also object to large desalination plants for some reason in the future (such as ruining beautiful beach and shoreline scenery and being an eyesore, and etc.).

Now go back and read ALL of what I posted with an open mind.