What do you complain about that you wish there was a solution for?

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

The continuous drought in Califirnia, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and especially Texas. The continuous flooding in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, and all along the Missippi. Why is it not possible to divert these flood waters from ruining people's lives in a single day and send that water to an area where peoples lives are slowy being ruined? A pipeline, a canal, a tunnel, a culvert, something??? Don't tell me that we can channel oil and gas across the entire country, but that we can't manage H2O!

 

[YosemiteSam]

Don't tell me that we can channel oil and gas across the entire country, but that we can't manage H2O!

Oh we can. The problem is the volume you're needing. A million gallons of water a day is four gallons of water for each square mile of Texas along. That's it. Four gallons per square MILE of Texas. That doesn't include New Mexico, Arizona, or California. (and all other places that need water)

Besides, where are you going to get all this "fresh" water? The ocean is the only body of water large enough to supply that kind of water and well, it's salty.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Oh we can. The problem is the volume you're needing. A million gallons of water a day is four gallons of water for each square mile of Texas along. That's it. Four gallons per square MILE of Texas. That doesn't include New Mexico, Arizona, or California. (and all other places that need water)

Besides, where are you going to get all this "fresh" water? The ocean is the only body of water large enough to supply that kind of water and well, it's salty.

Well the idea was to draw it from the Mississippi as a supplemental water source, and to help replenish dwindling reservoirs.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Well the idea was to draw it from the Mississippi as a supplemental water source, and to help replenish dwindling reservoirs.

There are over 300 navigable lakes in Texas covering 4,959 square miles of land. Building 100 Great Pyramids of Giza would probably be easier to do.

The Mississippi moves 1.6 million gallons of water per second. That is a lot, but get this. Lake Travis and Buchanan can hold 2.3 million acre-feet of water. An acre-foot equals about 326,000 gallons. So 326,000 * 2,300,000 = 749,800,000,000 of water. Or 749.8 billion gallons of water...and that is only two of Texas navigable 300+ lakes and reservoirs.

The Mississippi moves an awful lot of water, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to how much water exists in Texas lakes.

 

[Rynie]

People who have no sense if their surroundings in public. Example: people who walk in groups at the mall spread out 9 deep so nobody can pass them, or when a group just stops in the middle of a walking area instead of getting over to the side, out of the way.

 

[notherbob]

Well the idea was to draw it from the Mississippi as a supplemental water source, and to help replenish dwindling reservoirs.

Another big problem in diverting water from the Mississippi river to Texas is that the further south it gets it becomes increasingly polluted so that one is importing extremely polluted water. Where do you think that huge dead spot in the gulf comes from? It's the other edge of the double edge sword that is modern chemical agriculture.

You are what you eat and increasingly Americans' health is declining due to toxic food additives. What we are eating is making us sick but there are no plans in corporate America to change that.

Wanna get rich? Buy medical stocks as "health care" probably generates more money than any other kind of business enterprise today.

Fool that I am, I raise or grow most of my own food and at age 72 I am rarely ill and take no medications at all. Life is good if you don't fall into the corporate food trap.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

People who have no sense if their surroundings in public. Example: people who walk in groups at the mall spread out 9 deep so nobody can pass them, or when a group just stops in the middle of a walking area instead of getting over to the side, out of the way.

Omg yes! Drives me insane!

I sometimes think a good solution to this would be a baseball bat. :laugh1:

 

[YosemiteSam]

People who have no sense if their surroundings in public. Example: people who walk in groups at the mall spread out 9 deep so nobody can pass them, or when a group just stops in the middle of a walking area instead of getting over to the side, out of the way.

You would absolutely hate the NYC Subway system. :laugh2:

They do that crap on stairs too. Makes you want to push them down them!