Before reading the following, I must ask you to forget all the global warming stuff.

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The city of Corpus Christi will run out of water before too long.*  So will Tehran.  So will Sao Paulo.  So will Cape Town.  So will Mexico City.  So will Chennai.  So will Bandung.  So will Bogotá.  So will Phoenix (which has a nuclear reactor that needs constant water).  In China, the heat has gotten so extreme that cars have become deformed and flipflops have melted on the pavement.  Lake Mead, one of the largest reservoirs, lost 25 feet in one month.

That is a fact.

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And it is not just the cities.  The same is true for the surrounding areas.  Last year, there was little water available to fight California wildfires due to the criminal incompetence and corruption from Democrats (who have not been held accountable).

At present, approximately 60 percent of the United States is in drought.

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And the irony is that 70 percent of the planet’s surface is covered by water.

The planet Earth appears to be going through one of its recurrent periods of drought.  These droughts vary in intensity, range, and duration and can be found in the historical record.  For example, a drought that lasted from 1606 to 1612 devastated the colony of Jamestown (there were no fossil fuels then).  In 1177 B.C., an extreme drought in the  Mediterranean area, which lasted well over a decade, resulted not only in starvation, deaths, and cannibalism, but also in mass migration, which resulted in the collapse of several hitherto flourishing Bronze Age civilizations (there were no fossil fuels then, either).  There have been many others.

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It would be absurd not to take mitigating steps before the problem escalates, and even if it does not escalate, there are regions of the country that have always needed more water anyway.

There is the solution of building desalination plants, which rely on an expensive process called reverse osmosis.  These can be found in the Gulf states.  The world’s largest R.O. desalination plant is in Sorek, Israel.

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The United States has an additional, feasible solution to drought, one that has the potential to turn vast areas of the country that have otherwise always been arid (like the western areas of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico) into fields of luxuriant vegetation year-round.

Consider the Great Lakes, each of which has an area larger than many states.  If “drained,” the freshwater in those vast lakes could cover all of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, up to five feet of water.  More importantly, it is constantly renewable.

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A system of canals, similar to the oil pipelines, could continually channel water throughout the Midwest and the South, directly into aquifers, lakes, reservoirs, and water distribution centers.  Such canalization has been done before, albeit on a relatively smaller scale in the Sumerian and Angkor Wat civilization, using primitive handheld tools, with superb results.  Someone with the engineering skills of an Elon Musk could undertake that task.  Revenue would come from states and companies that most need the water, of course.

Unfortunately, if Democrats were to get involved, as with the California’s Train to Nowhere, the entire country would become a desert before the canals became a reality.

To be sure, liberals would strongly oppose this system of canals, since completion of the project would benefit America and Americans, the targets of liberals’ undying hatred.  So canals harm the environment, canals are racist, and canals are misogynistic because they are too phallic (don’t laugh — equally psychotic statements have been made by liberals in the past couple of decades).  There will also be calls that the money would be better spent elsewhere, like transgender genital mutilation for illegal aliens, or for circumcisions for the people of Zimbabwe and Mongolia, or “reparations” for being black.

Conversely, they may welcome the state of affairs in order to introduce extreme social control, as was the case during the COVID fiasco. Or they may demand that we bring the entire population of Africa into the U.S. because of drought there.  Or they may demand that we send our water to other countries, just as we have been sending a cascade of money for decades.

Many will say the drought is due to “global warming” and demand we abandon using fossil fuels for energy and return to living as in the Dark Ages.

Leaving those irritations aside, one can circumvent the noise from the lunatic fringes and simply focus on the engineering solution to the droughts.  Therefore, a system of canals in North America is feasible and will transform many areas that are experiencing drought, assuring not only a steady supply of renewable water, but the preservation of our food supply.

We are very lucky in having the Great Lakes.  It is truly God’s country.

* A few months prior, the local government of Sinton, which is near Corpus Christi, sold its water reserve to an unnamed data center.

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