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Originally Posted by speeder

This is absolutely the solution and they had better do it fast. I did not know that anyone is seriously discussing it but I have been talking random people for years that we need a pipeline from places that flood and get too much rain to the places that are too dry. Population trends for decades have been shifting to the desert Southwest of the U.S., (Vegas, Phoenix, etc.), and lack of water will be the number one problem.

My idea was for some huge pipelines and huge reservoirs on both ends. If done right, it could solve two problems at once and be a huge infrastructure project as well, creating a bunch of good paying jobs. It could prevent floods in places like Texas and Louisiana if they had a reservoir system with automatic release valves that opened when the water reached a certain level and dumped it into the pipeline system, (which admittedly would have to be huge), sending all of the excess water into the reservoirs in AZ., NV. and CA. Even if it could not completely end flooding, it would make it less severe and drain the flooded areas quicker. The desert SW would get billions of gallons of fresh water.

Harvey dumped 30 Trillion gallons of water on Texas in 2017. That could have helped...