Sharing Mississippi water with California would help feed America

More than a cost issue, I see this as a political issue. Changing water compacts would be akin to changing one of the federations amendments. I don't think it would be as simple as allocating the additional flow to California, because it goes through other states to get there. Other states that need more. Cooperation is no longer one of our strongpoints as a nation. Just take a look at roundhouses comment above for an example.

 

Farmington NM, to the Mississippi River depending on exactly where, is quite an elevation change. My guess would be a fair number of pumping stations would be required. As this would be a government public works project, the costs would be astronomical. We don’t have slave labor here, unlike China.
I’ve read several articles over the last few years warning about the fragility of 3 Gorges.

 

Three and a half years it shall not rain upon the earth. This is prophecied to happen when the earth is so spiritually perverse that the depraved world will receive the Antichrist.

And it is self inflicted depravation.

The woke world has no defense against God's judgement. Reap what is sown.

We are just seeing the foretaste of what is to come.

Laodicean quagmires.

 

Water Wars!!

 

I wouldn’t count on the highest welfare State in the country to pay for much. The idea that the people of Mississippi would foot the bill is funny. I don’t think that’s what anyone’s suggesting. I’m in Mississippi right now. Not exactly the land of opportunity, their whole annual budget is probably less than L.A. county’s. Mississippi is so poor, they can’t even support themselves. Today I saw a Dog Standing on a corner holding a sign up that read “Will hunt for fude” Not the best speller that dog. I doubt that dog will ever hunt. No doubt a product of the Public School system. It’s so bad half the population can’t spell the States name. They pronouce it Mippissippi. I’m near Greenville right now. The city’s so poor, the only Pool hall in town has 3 tables, but only 1 stick. Takes forever to play a game, waiting your turn for a stick. Even Uncle Ben left Town it’s such a depressed area. Moved to California or Az. maybe Nevada. Lots of speculation. He just one day disappeared. Maybe ran off with Aunt Jemima. Didn’t want his good name associated with the State anymore. Mississippi won’t be of much help to California, Besides they only control half of the River that carries their namesake.

 

And what a great joke that was.

 

Im not arguing against using china as a model because it runs large "public works" projects, my objection is that there are consequences to the actions of big centralized planning that are sometimes easily forseeable and sometimes more hidden. (See mao's famine, he didnt starve china so much as create the conditions that it would be inevitable, you dont even have to attribute the famine to malice, just stupidity. You cant tell everyone to stop growing food in favor of rubber trees and then expect that to work out fine 10 years later)

 

Playing devils advocate, i would say that pasturage and hay crops simply require ridiculous amounts of acreage for their output, that has to play into the calculation somewhere.

If it takes 500 acres of alfalfa to put 1 unit of food on the table but a 1 acre plot of almonds produces the same 1 unit, the almonds could literally use 2450 acre feet of water per acre and be just as productive.