I remember a WTYP episode on mega-projects. One project was to reverse a bunch of rivers in Canada so they flow south rather than emptying up into the north Pacific where nobody lives. The estimates they came to suggested a tripling of the fresh water reserves running through the Colorado. Also, tons of extra flooding and a huge strain on existing infrastructure, but that's sort of the price of tripling the supply of potable water so what are you complaining about?
Anyway, this idea had been floated back in the 70s, and the response was "Fuck no! Costs money!"
Now we want to move a bunch of Mississippi water several thousand miles westward, instead? Stupidest fucking country.
This will never happen--not because of valuing the environment, but because it would be a public works project
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I remember a WTYP episode on mega-projects. One project was to reverse a bunch of rivers in Canada so they flow south rather than emptying up into the north Pacific where nobody lives. The estimates they came to suggested a tripling of the fresh water reserves running through the Colorado. Also, tons of extra flooding and a huge strain on existing infrastructure, but that's sort of the price of tripling the supply of potable water so what are you complaining about?
Anyway, this idea had been floated back in the 70s, and the response was "Fuck no! Costs money!"
Now we want to move a bunch of Mississippi water several thousand miles westward, instead? Stupidest fucking country.