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Outside Magazine, December 2011<\/a>
\nTuesday, November 15, 2011<\/p>\n

WHY CAN’T WE: DIVERT FLOODWATER TO DROUGHT REGIONS<\/h3>\n
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\"Floodwater<\/p>\n

Floodwater Diversion \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Photographer:<\/em>\u00a0Illustration by Jameson Simpson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nSounds sweet. Instead of letting the Mississippi River overflow its banks, how about sending a few billion gallons to the parched Southwest? The first barrier is the environment. Flooding regenerates farmland and cues fish to spawn, says Taylor Hawes, the Nature Conservancy\u2019s program director for the Colorado River. There\u2019s also the issue of invasive species infiltrating river systems. You really want to see Asian carp in the Grand Canyon?
\nThen there\u2019s politics. East of the 100th meridian, it\u2019s generally illegal to divert water from one basin to another, a fact that has prevented always-thirsty \u00adAtlanta from tapping the Tennessee River (which doesn\u2019t enter Georgia). Even if laws were changed, politicians tend to protect their water sources. Grand County, Colorado, for example, home to the Colorado River\u2019s headwaters, is grappling with a proposal to divert as much as 85 percent of its flows to Denver and the Front Range.
\nThe biggest problem: cost. One proposal, floated in 2009 by Colorado rancher and mining engineer Gary Hausler, would create a pipeline from the Mississippi to the Colorado at an estimated $22.5 billion. That\u2019s just to build the thing. You\u2019d also have to factor in the annual cost, in money and energy, of pumping huge amounts of water uphill for roughly 1,200 miles.
\nBut, says Southern Nevada Water Authority spokesman J.\u2009C. Davis, whose group has its own plans for less audacious regional diversions, \u201cI bet if you went back and asked people about building a coast-to-coast highway system, they\u2019d have mocked that, too.\u201d\n<\/div>\n

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