A Design To Stop Louisiana From Drowning By Adding Faucets To The Mississippi

Can we restore the natural sediment flows of the Mississippi? Here's a proposal that could do a much better job.

Louisiana is drowning: Over the last eight decades, more than 2,000 square miles of land have disappeared underwater. When engineers sealed off the Mississippi River with levees to prevent flooding in the 1930s, they also cut off the river's natural process of building land.

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