By valued-customer on Skatehive
I haven't heard anything about this before now, and don't see anything else about it where I get information from without searching it up. This is catastrophic for agriculture, the ancient ecology of the Mississippi River, and the many millions of people that live along the river. I'm sure this has happened before to the river, and time will heal it, the tougher species will survive, and people will adapt, but it could take centuries, or even millennia before the river restores it's natural bed and quits dumping into the aquifer we've been pumping dry for decades underneath it. IMG source - Odysee.com I'd be interested in any comments from folks that live along the Mississippi and are willing to share their understanding and potential solutions to the human catastrophe this is causing from their perspectives. From what I can tell, the only way to really restore the natural flow of the river is to stop (and reverse) channelizing the river, allow flooding to happen seasonally, and re-eng