Posted by NCWayne on May 08, 2009 at 18:35:14 from (166.82.169.10):
Just read the post about prayers for rain and how it was all coming at once and it got me to thinking again (yeah, that can be dangerous I know...LOL) Seriously, I was just curious as to what ya'll think of my idea.
With the rain never seeming to come down where it's really needed and causing so many floods it seems like we ought to have a way to move the water around to where it is needed. I mean we can move electricity, oil, natural gas, etc, all over the country, why not water. I say why not find a nice HUGE desolate, empty, place somewhere and make a HUGE lake to store a HUGE amount of water. Then from lakes, rivers, etc all over the country run pipelines to this man made storage facility. When we have flooding/excess water in one part of the country at least some of it could be pumped into storage and then pumped right back out to other places that really needed the water but didn't have it. Don't get me wrong I can see problems with this, especially if it was government run, but even then think about it. Not only would it help some areas that were prone to flooding but also help areas that were prone to drought. Think what having pretty much all the water you wanted would do for the futures of farming communities in areas that haven't had enough rain. Too, right now, it would create alot of jobs simply building the lake, and then more on top of that in multiple states, running the pipelines, building pumping stations, etc. If nobody in the private sector wanted to get involved then do it as a public works project similar to what they did in the early part of the century.
I know there would be problems with any undertaking this large but I think that any problems would be far outweighed by the good done in the future. Just curious as to ya'lls thoughts.
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