Andy B.

Water: The New Oil

Good visionary article. If the current administration had any vision they would have set aside a portion of the infrastructure rebuilding funds to create a huge water-holding reservoir (or regional reservoirs) near the Mississippi to store, divert and control the yearly floodwaters that flood the states along the Mississippi and cause billions of dollars in damage every year.

Then, either a main pipeline or several smaller ones can be built running west or south from those reservoirs. The water can then be piped to the Southern and Western drought states into their water/irrigation distribution systems that desperately need the water for their crops or even for drinking.

Most state governments are continually whining about balancing their state budgets. Now, here's a chance for them to all get together and cooperate in an endeavor that will make them as much money as Big Oil makes. I also don't doubt that the same water running though those pipes can also be harnessed to create green energy as it flows through the pipes.

Or, they can just continue letting these floodwaters cause untold billions of damages year after year and let the water continue to run into the Gulf of Mexico to turn into salt water.

Based on how the politicians and government leaders are currently running our country into the ground I doubt that they have the brains to make this happen. Besides, who would want to create a whole new industry, create thousands of new jobs and make billions upon billions of new dollars flow into the economy? I'm sure Canada will outsmart our stupid politicians and do it first. Then we'll be beholden to them for a foreign water supply.

The only way I see a visionary project like this ever happening is to throw out ALL the incumbents from government office first and start with fresh idea makers. Do you agree?