Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water
Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water
The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday.
The move comes as water levels are plummeting for the second consecutive year after this summer’s blistering heat and low rainfall triggered extreme drought over parts of the central US.
As water levels drop, the threat of saltwater intrusion grows in Louisiana as ocean water pushes north into drinking water systems, unimpeded by the Mississippi’s normally mighty flow rate.
The Mississippi River is forecast to reach “historic lows over the next several weeks,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said during a Friday news conference.
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We're just going to keep doing this kind of shit till it all falls apart aren't we?
If only people would stop voting for cartoonish villains in the gop and actually vote for people who give a shit.
It is not just the GOP in the USA. Every nation has the same issue, most people only care about themselves.
My own parents have basically said they do not give a shit what happens after they die as it will not affect them.
That is the attitude of so many people in the world.
Please let it all fall apart after I am gone.
Eh. Democrats don't really care either.
I never said a party name. I said vote for people that care.
Yep. We will keep applying band-aids to the gaping chest wound because sowing up the hole in the artery has been deemed bad for the economy.
Dang we just pulled an insurance company on ourselves
It goes a little bit deeper than that.
Yeah, we would progress slower. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is competing with other nations. If the US stops using fossil fuels but China keeps using them, then the US just handicapped itself and China is going to progress faster because of it.
I'm not saying it should be this way, just that it is. And it's not just 'the economy.' It's the military. Like it or not, nations are at war even when they're not.