Future Water Wars - Nile River

[gwynedd1]

Re: Future Water Wars - Nile River

It is within a single country, but we do have rival local governments. Powel, the one who intitially surveyed the West, recommended strongly that states be created around entire watersheds. We didn't and its endless bickering between the states. Rival political entities around single watersheds are trouble.

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Future Water Wars - Nile River

Powel, the one who intitially surveyed the West, recommended strongly that states be created around entire watersheds. We didn't and its endless bickering between the states..

Single state watersheds are no guarantee either. Witness the endless bickering between Northern and Southern California (nominally the same state) over the water from the Northern half that the Southern half uses.

[Starving Steve]

Re: Future Water Wars - Nile River

We all are not able to afford the luxury of being able to live on top of granite and on top of view property. Most people are like me, just barely surviving in "respectable poverty".

Everything in life is about compromises, and where we are able to live is a compromise. We try to make the best of our situation. So entire cities like Winnipeg, Sacramento, St. Louis, Houston, and New Orleans are planned on flood plains because the land is flat and initially cheap there. That is just the way it is: cities develop where the economics is right (meaning affordable and profitable) in the short-term.

To salvage New Orleans, a city built upon a flood plain that is actually below sea-level, perhaps the Obama Administration should be paying unemployed people to help build-up the levies around the city. That is the kind of public works programme that would be non-inflationary and very effective in creating real jobs for people at all skill levels. A fair criticism of the Obama Administration would be to ask why such a public works programme is not in place now?