http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/01/10/drought-and-the-future-of-the-mississippi
The mighty Mississippi knows floods and the mighty Mississippi knows drought.
Right now, it’s deep in drought country. 2012 was the hottest year on record in the US. So dry crops shriveled in the fields. Worst drought in 80 years. Not good news for the Mississippi River.
South of St. Louis, it’s so shallow now that barges can barely travel. A world of grain, coal, iron, gravel, looking for a way to move. And big tensions over the water that remains, and where it needs to flow.
This hour, On Point: we’re looking at drought, climate, commerce – and the shrunken Mississippi.
-Tom Ashbrook
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