Water ... Water

Today we are told that water in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is at a record low level. In almost the same breath we learn that a prolonged U.S. drought has reduced water in the Mississippi River to three feet in depth in some places. There are lamentations about threats to barge traffic and town water supplies.

Most would not know of the existence of a man-made back door channel through Chicago that can be used to drain Lake Michigan water into the Mississippi via the Ohio River.   Are Americans diverting Great Lakes water into the Mississippi during the drought?

Before the Chicago water diversion existed, the Great Lakes supplied water to the giant St. Lawrence River watershed.  There is no drought anywhere on the Great Lakes today, but the lakes are empty and the entire St. Lawrence River watershed is starving for water.

Today, the watersheds of both the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence are lined with nuclear power plants that CANNOT get along without cooling water.  Will nuclear plants in the St. Lawrence watershed be shut down in order to keep Mississippi nuclear plants running during the drought?

Let’s apply logic here.  Where is the drought that is causing the problem?  It’s in the central U.S.  That’s where shutdowns should occur - along the Mississippi.

Sorry folks. Everywhere we turn we are robbing Peter to pay Obama.  Integrity is dead.  Remember Benghazi.