How much water is there on earth? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 22:11 (4478 days ago) @ xeno6696


> That might be a little harsh... I've known guys in the Army Corps. If you let each state control flows without centralized management, internal politics could get pretty dicey: Imagine if North Dakota faced drought and decided to shut the gates? Everyone downstream would be negatively affected. 
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> Water flow is too big a problem to not have some kind of national management system.-Agreed. But our government constantly gets us in trouble. Control of the delta caused water to bypass, loss of marsh land and New Orleans in more trouble than it should be in hurricanes. After screwing up the Grand Canyon with Glen Canyon dam, then having to spend hundreds of thousands in ecologic studies to get it back like it was. I could go on and on, but the point is made.