Mayors across US call for federal assistance as Mississippi River reaches record lows

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“Low water can have as great a cost, or greater, than high water,” said Jim Strickland, mayor of Memphis, Tenn., where river levels reached a historic low at the end of October. “We have all these tools at our disposal for floods, but very few for droughts.”

Interesting article about the effects the low water in the Mississippi River is having on cities up and down the river. It makes sense that these river cities have little or no plans for low water events, that they put all their resources in flooding, I just never thought of it like that. Anyway hopefully the rains are coming in the near future to get the river level back to normal ranges.....

Read the full story here....
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_24b9cc1c-5a31-11ed-9b37-df0d80908d2d.html

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All they can do is hope for rain at this point....

It'll come, that's for sure

I wonder if storing water is an option in the future

It's such a rare problem that I doubt it

Thanks for the article, something that I haven't been following to close

No problem, it's something that most don't know about.