Drought-stricken correspondents at one small California newspaper have sparked a national conversation by proposing to re-route water from the Mississippi River to the parts of the U.S. Southwest to relieve the parched conditions there.
The letters to the editor section of the Desert Sun, based out of Palm Springs, has seen letters coming in since June from locals who believe the nation’s largest river by volume can help hydrate their arid region.
“Instead of just conservation, what about a Tennessee Water Authority-like project to divert the Mississippi River and build a canal with reservoirs along the way, to pipe it into the Colorado River?