The news informs us of devastating floods in Texas and Oklahoma, inundating homes and drowning and destroying their inhabitant's lives. Contrariwise, the drought in California has forced farmers, responsible for crops depended on by people all over the world to resort to extreme measures to save their farms. So many wells have been drilled that in some areas salt water is seeping into the ground water. The resulting increase costs for vital nourishment affects us all, This is not just an American problem, Aquifers are being depleted all over the world.
Although our government debates the merits of oil pipelines spanning the width of our country, with possible devastating ecological consequences, there are no plans to intelligently divert water from flood lands to where it is so desperately needed.
How can this most vital problem be too difficult to solve when innovative companies are exploring technologies to mine asteroids and produce self-driving cars?
I challenge Google, IBM, GE and others to work together to resolve this most significant problem, and to encourage governments all over the world to invest in the creation of intelligent water management systems that equalizes nature's haphazard distribution of water.
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