Watching the Network News this evening, -I'm Inspired to Post on something I've been Kicking Around in my Mind. And that concerns our West's Longstanding Droughts and Other Water Shortages.

The Report Talked of a Western Govorner's Meeting held today in Santa Fe, -on the Subject.

The Idea I've Long been Kicking Around in my Head, -Involves the Possibilities of Tapping Into the Great Mississippi-Missourri River System. We all know of the Tremendous Volumes of Water, which Flows just Uselessly into the Gulf!, from Such.

This Occurs Only Several Hundred Miles or so, -from the Easternmost Portions of the West. It's Not like it's Far Off! Though the Further West such System Goes, -One is Beginning to Look at some Distance.

I Think that to the Extent Economical or Feasable, -It would be Absolutely Great for the Water Pressed West!, to be Able to Tap Into this Vast Rich Source!

Of course there is the Matter of the Great Rise in Elevation. Canals, Pipelines, Pumping Systems, Tunnels, Dams, Reservoirs and Other Storage Areas, Branch Offs and Irrigation Waterways thruout the West, -All would have to be Placed into Play.

To the Extent Hydroelectric Power can also be Developed out of this, -Abundant and Cheap Electricity can Exist for the Pumping Systems! Over Time, -the System can Probably Pay for it's Own Pumping!

I Think that Elevation Rises and Pumping, along with perhaps Costs, -would be the Greatest Challenges! But They'd Not Neccessarily be Technically or Economically Insuperable Ones! Some of the Tunneling thru our Western Mountains, as well as some of the Most Major Canal Digging, -Could also Rank High among the Challenges.

Of course one can also Often Make Use of Existing Rivers, Valleys, and Mountain Passes and Gaps, -in these Regards. Though some Pumping to Higher Elevations will often be Involved there, too.

Often, as in the Case of the Already Existing Colorado River, -Replete with it's Already Existing Water and Irrigation Systems, -We Can Take Advantage of Systems and Capabilities Already in Place. If Mississippi-Missourri Water can just be Gotten to the Eastern Colorado!,...-The Rest is Literally a Normal Flow Down that Colorado!

A Feeder can also Go into Northern New Mexico's Rio Grande. Perhaps Somewhere Along the Line, -One can Reach Nevada's Elko. Think of What That can Do for Northern Nevada! And Onward to the Eastward Colombia and Snake. As well as Elsewhere.

Even if a Scaled Down, Less than Complete or Dream, System, -If even Only the Colorado River can be so Reached, -What it Could Do for the West's Great, Longstanding, Water Woes!

Our West is in Great Need of Water even in Normal Times! Let Alone Ever Increasing Dry, Drought Ones!

If but a Fraction of Lower Mississippi Water Flow could be Diverted Westward, -What a Godsend that can be!, -for the American West!

Much can Still Flow Gulfward, -I'm Not Talking about Reduceing that to a Trickle! Shipping Still Needs to Occur on the Mississippi, -New Orleans would Not Want an Infusion of Salt Water, and so on. A "Lot" can be Taken from the Lower Mississippi, -with Yet Plenty Left Over to Spare! We Won't be Losing our Mississippi!,-in that So Much Water Exists there in it's Lower Portions.

Some of our Nuclear Stockpile, (as Well as Perhaps Former Soviet), (Somewhere Along the Line we can perhaps Help Russia Divert some of it's Waters too, as a Part of such Deal),-Could be Used for the Largest, Most Challenging Canal Digging and Tunneling! Such Uses for Canal Digging have Long been Talked About. And are Perfectly Feasable. This would be an Eminently Peaceful Use for Nuclear Power / Weaponry. (Of course Enuff would Still Need to be Left Over, and/or Remanufactured, -For Normal Defense and Deterrance Needs, -Particularly in the Face of Today's New Enemies and Times.)

This would be a Boon from an Economic and Feasability Standpoint too. Why Tunnel Conventionally, at High Altitude, Remote Locations, -When you can Intelligently Blast your Way Thru! Normal Matters regarding Blast Radiation and Residual Radioactivity, would of course have to be Addressed.

Here in the East, -though we Do Get our Droughts, -Water is Normally Plentiful and Taken Largely for Granted! Our Great Runoff Drains Uselessly into that Gulf! I am in the Eastern Portions of the Mississippi Watershed, -Along Three Major Tributaries.

I've Long Read However, -with Sympathy and Feeling, -of How our Great American West, is Often Water Tight or Water Starved! Our West Really Needs It! Our West can Really Use It! I would Not Mind some of my Area's Runoff, -Being Put to Eminently Good and Needed Use!, -Out West!

So to the Extent Economically and Technically Feasable, -Why Not Take a Look at the Great, Reasonably Near, Lower Mississippi-Missourri System!? What that Infusion of Water Couldn't Do for our West! And again, -at Only a Fraction of the Lower Mississippi's Waterload.

Depending on How Much Water is Ultimately Transported Westward, -Perhaps Drying Aquifers and Other Groundwater can be Recharged!

But First Priorities of course are Agricultural Irrigation, Municipal Water Systems, Reservoirs for Forest Fire Fighting, Livestock Water Tanks, and the Like.

Perhaps Some can even Go to Northern Mexico, and the Great Agricultural Areas of the Southern Canadian Prairie Provinces.

I've Seriously Thought of Writing the various Western Govorners on This, in the Past. But have Not yet Gotten Around to it. Today's News Report Gave me Something of a Reminder.

Talk About a Great National Goal and Project that We and our Energies Can Be On To! Costs of Course Sufficiently Permitting. Water to the West! Great and Plentiful Streams of It!

Though I'm in the East, -My Heart is in the West! "There's a Feeling I Get!, -When I Look to the West!" I'd Like to Do Our West a Good One! If One would Ask the West What It Most Wants, -It's Answer would Probably be Water!

To the Extent Economically and Otherwise Feasable, -I Think a Look to our Continent's and Country's Lower Mid-Waters, would be in Order! Water To The West! It Could be the Latest Installment in our Historic Westward Look!, and of our American Dream!
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