[Pedro '84 Coupe]

We are blessed with plenty of water and rain in Louisiana (maybe too much at times), although some of the aquifers are being depleted faster than many folks would like.

I worked in Lubbock on a project 10 years ago and I was amazed at how the farmers were able to grow anything out there. Most of the water came from the Ogallala aquifer and there was circular and drip irrigation and other pretty ingenious methods to irrigate the cotton etc. I really admired those folks' tenacity and ingenuity. Really great people out there.

At the time there were some bad floods in the Midwest from the Mississippi River so I wondered why couldn't the excess water be channeled somehow to the arid parts of the country. Turns out in the 1950s or 60s the feds began trying to expropriate land to create just such a channel to supply Lubbock and the surrounding area with water. I didn't believe it until I saw the right-of-way deeds in the public records. The channel was never built but the idea was there.