Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

JimmyT wrote: The red river certainly could have spared a few billion gallons of fresh water about a month ago.

True, but where do you think all that thick topsoil on the flood plain came from? Very attractive for farmers, and then cities, but it IS a floodplain. Same story around virtually every seasonal river in the world. People want the after-effects (fertile soil) without the process (spring floods). From the Nile to the Mississippi to the Red to the Colorado.
Or they want gazillions of fish (salmon, e.g.) plus tightly controlled and dammed rivers for hydropower and ‘flood control’. Surprise: no floods, no salmon.
But the ACOE and DOE etc. have been happy to build, dredge, channel, culvert, levee, and otherwise ruin rivers and streams worldwide. See the 3 Gorges Dam in China for a current example. Where I live, Vancouver, Canada, it is estimated that the city sits on land that had dozens or hundreds of streams, now culverted or buried or diverted, that were salmon breeding sites 100 years ago. A few, mostly token, efforts are being made to revive some of them. But it was a noticeable contribution to disproving the adage, “There’re lots of fish in the sea” when they were closed off.