Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water | CNN

 

geauxin' great!

 

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Of course the real tragedy won't get here until a family in Kansas has to put as brick in their toilet tank.

 

Another record has been set for record low Antarctic sea ice. That's the third time this has happened in the last five years.

 

If the Army Corps of Engineers has to keep delivering 33 million gallons of water a day to New Orleans that day may come sooner than you think. And that's just mitigation, it doesn't fix anything. The corps is also going to be raising a number of levees on the Mississippi to help... but the bottom line is that the drought has reduced the flow of the Mississippi so badly that salt water is flowing up from the gulf and contaminating the city's water supply.

 

More than 90% of California free of drought as water year ends, but it's wait and see how much snowpack they get this winter.

https://www.courthousenews.com/more...a-out-of-historic-drought-as-water-year-ends/

 

It will be an emergency when that family in Kansas has to install a low-flow showerhead.

 

The simple solution should be to truck in some pipe and move the water intake miles upstream temporarily. The federal emergency should help.

But I wouldn't drink anything that comes out of that river. A chemist could find all 100+ elements in a test tube taken from the waters. Every time I go to NOLA the only stuff I drink is out of a bottle.

 

Battling a Water Crisis: Bottles, Barges and Maybe a Quarter Billion-Dollar Pipe

At a meeting of the City Council's public works committee on Wednesday, Collin Arnold, the director of emergency preparedness, said that barges and filters might not be enough to supply the region’s two biggest water treatment facilities with sufficient fresh water.

He called for the construction of a pipe that could pull even more fresh water from upriver. It would require federal assistance, and officials said the cost could exceed $250 million.

 

it's fine

 

I can believe in climate change and also believe a single flash flood is not an airtight case for it, even in almighty Noo Yawk.