Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought

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7. The dams along the Colorado River are very good at capturing floodwaters.

The river rarely makes its way all the way to the ocean.

Transporting floodwaters from Eastern U.S.A. to the West wouldn't be so easy. Pumping water thousands of miles over elevations of nearly a mile wouldn't be worth the cost.

Rising oceans are a similar problem. Building seawalls along the entire length of our coasts really isn't an option.

The only real option is figuring out how to comfortably relocate people as places become uninhabitable, preferably with their communities intact.

Some places will be salvageable with technological solutions, but most will not.

If we don't deal with these problems in a rational way it will be chaos. The U.S.A. could end up looking a lot like Syria does now.