The Mississippi River Crisis Explained

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The problems of the Mississippi River are all over the news. One day it's flooding, the other it's drying. Salt water is intruding in the river's delta, the water is contaminated. What's going on?! It turns out... a classic man against nature story. Enjoy the video!
FULL TRANSCRIPT + SOURCES:
docs.google.com/document/d/12...
MAIN SOURCES:
Mississippi River Commission (US Army Corps of Engineers):
www.mvd.usace.army.mil/About/...
Mississippi River - a Cultural Treasure (American Rivers):
www.americanrivers.org/river/...
Letting the River Run (The Nature Conservancy):
www.nature.org/en-us/magazine...
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[@HindsightYT]

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[@thomaschampion4142]

I am 60 years old and lived in Memphis tn most of my life. the Mississippi river has been so low at times in the 70's you could damn near walk across it. it does this all the time. every year its either over the banks or almost dry. this river will never dry up all the way. it all depends on the rain in the northern states that have small rivers that run into the river. also every one of the great lakes would have to dry up before the Mississippi river would come close to drying up forever. that's not going to happen.

[@kaydod3190]

Memphganistan 🦍🦍🔫🔫

[@hg2.]

Yes, WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@clarkthomas354]

The main tributary, the Ohio River, is the most polluted river in the US. 😃

[@hg2.]

@@clarkthomas354 "Please". You should have seen Lake Erie in the 70s. Now it's clean, but all industries are gone and all the cities are slums.

[@GEAUXFRUGAL]

Hank Williams Jr. Country boy can survive, and the Ms river is a going dry.

[@ddreamberry2]

I live right next to the bastard. Trust me, it ain't goin' nowhere.

[@Nooooahhh]

I live in NE MS and have seen/crossed the Mississippi River maybe 10-15 times, always been fascinated by it. Anything you can share that most people might not know about the River? Thank You.

[@charlesward8196]

The issue is NOT what happens IN the stream, but what happens adjacent to the stream. The amount of impermeable surfaces including, roofs, parking lots, streets and sidewalks in the basin has more than DOUBLED in the last 40 years, preventing infiltration into shallow aquifers that slowly feed the stream during late summer and fall, and instead immediately dumping snow melt and precipitation into a channel that is not designed to handle those peak flows in the spring and early summer.

[@hg2.]

Yes, WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@Idrinklight44]

Also throw in the millions of acres old growth forests, that are missing, with intact souls. The missing forests

[@illegaldestroyer]

Here is a solution for cities and towns that often flood - How Turning New York Green Be A Solution To Urban Flooding kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWLCZal6qLZ-gZosi=FVtVU2znhuTZt95E

[@lynnwood7205]

As my college Geology Professor explained in 1976, "we have changed the Mississippi River channel from a vast wetland through which a river flowed, into a fast running sewer."

[@dougtruesdell9937]

You left out another problem - silting. Every year nearly an inch of silt drops onto the backwaters. The dams reduce the movement of this silt, and it settles everywhere along the way. The river is becoming a navigation channel from Minneapolis to Saint Louis.

[@timothykeith1367]

Sediment is a major problem above Saint Louis

[@northerncaptain855]

Interesting video, as a Sea Captain I’ve routinely taken large ocean going ships up the Mississippi as far as Baton Rouge. The River is an incredible asset which was and is instrumental to the successful development and prosperity of the United States.

[@frederickjeremy]

Just watched this video while sitting on a towboat in the Mississippi river in New Orleans. I was in the floods in ioway last year, we sat for 2.5 weeks waiting for the water to come down to a level the locks were operable, seems a month or two later i was having to pump all our wash and drinking water overboard so we could get light enough draft to get up into the lock system above Saint Louis from the lower.

[@hg2.]

Yes, WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@dillonconnolly4016]

as an iowan who on earth says ioway????

[@chrisconklin2981]

Thank you for this presentation. It is the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, TVA, and the Bureau of Reclamation that manage the watershed. You did not mention the system of upstream reservoirs that are used to, given adequate rainfall, seasonally even out the waterflow. The 1927 floods forced the Army Corp to change philosophy from just Levee building to include upstream water management. Thanks also about mentioning rewilding efforts.

[@ronkirk5099]

Not only is agricultural runoff, industry and city discharges killing the Mississippi, but it is killing 100's of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico also due to eutrophication. The delta marshes are also being starved of the silt it needs to overcome storm erosion. I canoed the whole river once and the lower river below St. Louis two more times by rowing/sailing dingy and kayak.

[@cadude145]

Have you ever noticed that when man thinks he has a better idea that say 4.5 billion years of nature, he usually just f's it up.

[@RoySATX]

I'm not so sure all the native Americans and pre- 1928 Americans who lost their lives in flooding would agree. 4.5 billion years of nature made for a very precarious life no matter the species or the environment. Nature isn't freindly at all to life, life has had to fight and strugle against it all along. The very oxygen we breath is highly corrosive and caused one of the most massive extinction events on Earth. You are a fool if you think nature is on your side, or cares one bit about life.

[@georgehuffert1800]

And does he f it up good like global warming it's called weather you used to be able to set your watch by the rain every day not anymore weather changes

[@28704joe]

It's human nature to try and modify anything that can cause such deadly natural disasters. Without some flood control things would actually be worse but people in time forget the benefit and bitch about its occasional failures.

[@Nosensev57]

Found your channel recently, nice content!

[@BaconatorV420]

i swear the way he says "with hindsight" at the start of the video is making it iconic

[@thefpvlife7785]

We spend billions to search for water on other planets yet we pollute our own. omg

[@DasDutchman56]

The Mississippi River has always been up or down.

[@hg2.]

WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@olentangyriver1191]

It's bipolar?

[@brandonmccain2297]

I live at the mouth, the river delta in lower Plaqueminss Parish in a little town called Buras right along side the levee/ River. Its a river, it is always rising and lowering, it has went up recently but was low for a while which is prime fishing time. Storm surges push the river high lose to the the levee crown more than anything else.

[@RobbertvanHaaften]

Amazing content. Geweldig!

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content and all the amazing videos!!

[@HindsightYT]

Glad you like it :)

[@hg2.]

WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@johnmcnulty4425]

The Missouri River is really the main channel and drainage of a large swath of the Rocky Mountains.

[@jesseflores9087]

That's pretty crazy to think about.

[@MrOicur1two]

The Missouri River: to thin to plow, to thick to drink...

[@TRWFacty]

oh wait I just realised this is a brand new video

[@NicoA223]

Humanity’s urge to conquer everything spins the real problem. The Mississippi does this, and we try to stop it, but it keeps on doing what it did before us and will do after us. We try to prevent it and call it a disaster when the expected outcome happens

[@hg2.]

WGAS?

[@NicoA223]

@@hg2. ?

[@NicoA223]

@@hg2. nevermind I understand. I think that everybody should care because if we keep going as if we own the world, everything is gonna get worse and worse.

[@hg2.]

@@NicoA223 Do the world a favor and get a real job.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

4:59 news flash you shouldn't build in a floodplain I know it's already been cleared of large trees and such and it's nice and flat and smooth but don't let that make you think that that's a good place to build because there's a reason it's that way and even somebody with no experience in such things can with just a precursory assessment can easily figure out why

[@dennisroland5654]

Outstanding. Thank you.

[@mmhuq3]

Thank you so much for the video. Very informative

[@meyersculimbrene9478]

What would happen if the MADRID Fault earthquake of 1812 occur s agin, when the river flowed north, and many changes in the river course occured?

[@Sunny-jj4su]

We have water shortages from empty Aguifers in Kansas and Nebraska needing long-term irrigation projects. What would it takes to add reservoirs for the failing Prairies?

[@rptbr]

What a fascinating video. Really interesting and very well put together! Major kudos!

[@hg2.]

Yes, WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@lynnwood7205]

Meanwhile, the small wetlands, potholes, rain lakes are tiled and drained, these natural sponges which hold water and allow the aquifers to recharge now dried out, their water carried away to flow downstream

[@kellyjohns6612]

"The preacher man says it's the end of time "And the Mississippi River, she's a goin dry." -- Bocephus

[@davidpaul5580]

Growing up in Minneapolis,MN. I've enjoyed wahtcthing the river. I've waded across at Lake Itasca as well as other places. The Mississippi is so different in the southern part. When I traveled south of of MN it, is so different. The addition of the the Ohio and Missouri changes everything. There are no easy answers. We can't control nature.

[@lamontpearce170]

No , but it doesn't stop them from trying.

[@LegalizeMaron7110]

How can we fix this problem?

[@lynnwood7205]

@6:27 Minneapolis overview of the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River.

[@calcrappie8507]

There is no crisis. Wet years. Dry years. All normal.

[@darylb5564]

This just in…. We have an update. The river is going to continue long after man goes extinct. What a relief!

[@jacksonmoore4159]

the river has also been taken over by silver carp which leap out of the water if startled, swim in large school, and can weigh as much as a child

[@StainlessSteelPolish]

MN resident here. The Mississippi is the main artery of commerce in the Twin Cities and dozens of surrounding communities. I often feel like people look at nature as a thing to be used. This outlook on nature eventually applies to the way we look at our fellow humans, as we are all a part of nature.

[@firewoodwizard]

the sun will run out of hydrogen and die too.

[@brennanwalls26]

Lol

[@bikerguy5829]

OH My Goodness! We're all doomed. No hope at all

[@jwfinley7808]

Nothing changes

[@haroldjohnson2041]

Country Boys Can Survive, The preacher man says it's the end of time And the Mississippi River, she's a-goin' dry HANK Williams, Jr.

[@j.k.1239]

Interesting.

[@ErectkyleDysfunction]

It now makes sense why the map of the Louisiana purchase looks the way it does. Edit- nevermind, the youtuber guy mentioned it.

[@carlyleporter5388]

Weather has happened since the beginning of time. All weather troubles cannot be attributed to 6lobal warming.

[@rooster3019]

Sylvester Cat telling us the sky is falling.

[@tomref4001]

Only watched the intro-and read the comment from Chris Conklin, Chas Ward and Tom Champion amongst a few others in the first advert break. This is a very sensible comments section, and I will watch the video later, so comment is on the comments so far.. This dramatising of highs and lows (like 'the Shipping News' film is media cannon-fodder) is in common and lock-step with a universal overviewing for all 'adapted' river systems from man's superseding 'dominion' of them. Seems like this arrangement of reservoirs to moderate the 'extreming' effects of 'canalisation' and 'civilising' adjacent land use needs to be enlarged as a foreseeable requirement for a basin wide man-made change in the river's environment. Dredging of deposited crap is also required, and mandatory-it is often discarded as a cost-saving exercise in moronic accounting schemata. Man's requirements being greater but not as clever in implementation as the settled course of millenia of mother nature being left to her own devices. 😘😎

[@jackiepie7423]

14:39 its nature the river wants to flood it wants to dry it will continue to respond to changing weather patterns and these are expected to become more extreme but now tens of millions of people live on its Shores The river can not possibly want to flood, It is not an active agent within it's environment. Those tens of millions of people on either side of the river want to drive their cars though and will happily see it die as they pave over either side of the river for ample parking and speedy strodes They are the active agent.

[@daleladd2359]

Pumping water out of the ground irrigating millions of acres of corn and other farm crops will lower water table supplying the rivers and this causes water flows in rivers to drop.We are pumping more water out of the ground nowadays. Anything can happen nowadays.

[@notorious_tbageryt1115]

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implemented for the melt rate in the future as well as the plan I am about to show case ( for over 200 years now my family has been involved in climate models where we predict engineering change of the local weather patterns and how each storm has influencing fuel for the gathering elements that provide force of change / they also have been part of the original foundations of sustainability / before the gas powered vehicles hit the road , The Flocken Electric wagon was invented at the start of the 18th century , so from 1805 up until the 1914 ww1 my family had advanced technologies including planes, electric vehicles , Hot air balloons and sky cities / the cities were described as high altitude refueling stations bigger then Cargo ships today ( I have picked up on a vassal of inscriptions ( only translated through 3 people who can identify the language because the saint that wrote them was influenced how to protect the education like Christians had to protect the Bible for so many 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[@aydenmzgaming2705]

This is sad

[@russellringland1399]

Beavers used to regulate the flow. Bring them back.

[@snowman333-]

they don't know what they're doing.

[@hg2.]

WGAS?

[@efs83dws]

The river should be left as natural as possible.

[@stairman3151]

The river is almost inflood stage RIGHT NOW, st. Louis... fake video

[@Ukepa]

food video... you can't just think of one objective

[@Idrinklight44]

Our river's are dying or are already dead.

[@TheNitsua59]

At about 7:00 minutes into the video the narrator said, "fishes". This entire video sounds like AI down to the voice over. How can it be trusted?

[@HindsightYT]

It’s my voice, not AI, and you can find all sources in the transcript in the description.

[@pabloelsur1624]

"Fishes" is so called double plural = many species of fish.

[@jhoncho4x4]

Completely false click bait - river dam + lock system still works as designed. Water level control reservoirs are all down to WINTER pool. That prevents seasonal flooding of reservoirs and rivers, when snow melts and spring rains arrive.

[@pif4347]

Practice saying your “th” sounds. You can say “thrice freed thieves” 100 times per day and get really good at it.

[@ms.donaldson2533]

The CREATION of waterways is not a new problem, but one that came with the CREATION of the Federal system. George Washington was not only the first American President, but he was also owned a canal construction business and made his money by "improving" the water ways. That work was reformed into rail and road before getting transformed into airships. Fun Fact - George Washington was honored with a monument by The Mother Church where is was named "The Father of the Motherland" he stands at the top, pointing south, erected in the center of a Greek Cross. Mount Vernon, Baltimore, MD

[@user-tm6nq3ou1v]

I blame the New Madrid fault that is about to happen .

[@rweisele]

What a crock of chicken little 'the sky if falling' the Mississippi River is going to continue to flow, and this video is just an advertising for War Thunder, another crappy game that just warps children's minds!

[@proveritate9312]

Fiddling with nature makes things worse ! Mankind will sadly at the end be the loosers !

[@zacharycharmaine5903]

Ive lived on the mississippi river for over 30 years. this is total nonsense. I dont know anyone whos even heard of any of this. Its fine.

[@joeyvaughn4147]

It’s been rising and falling since the good Lord made it, has nothing to do with man.

[@matthewgibbs6886]

i blame beavers

[@thomasferrari6465]

You know for all the money of running these pipes and doing all this stuff there's an easier way to do it in England they made storm Gates that move why can't you put a storm gate and closed off part of the Mississippi River and back the water up a little bit on these drought times and being a gate where you can open and close it then you can control it and a fish can still go through then you can take care of that data area with the money

[@Comm0ut]

The only people worth listening to on such subjects are transport professionals operating barge traffic on that river. Infotainment spokesmodels are not those experts. As for flooding, don't live there. The middle of the US is nearly empty so there's plenty of room elsewhere.

[@HighFlyer96]

3:12 unless it's Russian lol

[@eliasthienpont6330]

🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁LION c LIKE No. 299

[@timothykuring3016]

What do I think it means? In my language, it is a generic term for the creator. I also learned French, and they call him Dieu. I never cared about his name, and he doesn't care about my name. He doesn't need anything. If he wants something, he asks for it. He wants me to obey the law for my own sake as He obeys the law. And that's how He knows me.

[@adrianlyles8016]

The Mississippi River runs up not down I think the only river in the world that does that

[@user-ts4yf3fe9u]

Not all the way. It is tidal. FYI. Last year (or the year before) when I traveled down it, it was floating.

[@louisjess84]

Please explain ?

[@Briand-ei1gs]

No it doesn't. It flows south to the gulf.

[@MarkMclaughlin-qm8kq]

The Nile flows south to north and Mississippi River flows north to south.

[@ben9787]

Another words the greedy people wanted more Tilliable land and man interfered with the river, Believe GOD has a purpose

[@hg2.]

Yes, WGAS about this clickbait video?

[@RandyBeretta-db5bg]

The government got it we're it's at so the Government needs to fix it.! 🤔

[@dpgreen11]

Free million free hundred furdy free thounded

[@mikehartman5326]

Trillions of ads.

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... #141 ✝ {2-20-2024)

[@nobodyspecial1857]

Engineered draught or intentionally not running cooling towers in that area (no water vapor put into the atmosphere to rain back down in that area

[@matsswede]

Usa need help seiriously.... The rich guys pay very low tax and I Usa need money let them pay more tax then maybe the river can be helped !

[@mahbriggs]

Why didn't you stay in school and get an education?

[@matsswede]

Ha ha.... yeh right... you cant even see it . Thats Usa today. @@mahbriggs

[@mahbriggs]

@@matsswede If you quit smoking pot, maybe you would make sense! Get out of your Mom's basement and get a job!

[@Briand-ei1gs]

Why use an Ai voice that sounds like it has a speech impediment. Majes it more believable its human?

[@mojo6524]

what bullshit

[@arthurwagar88]

Click bait. Bye.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

This video brought to you by Greta Thunberg and John Kerry

[@tradeprosper5002]

Nah, because they know that saltwater intrusion will cause an inland sea in the lower portion of great river. The Sea is coming...

[@fredziffel3443]

FEAR ! MORE FEAR ! WE NEED MORE BULLSH*T ! 😮😂

[@Dan24943]

Bad video made worse by a lousy War Thunder ad. It's almost like the person who created this video has never seen the river in real life.

[@dennisrockbottomskelly7948]

HAVE to admit....I like the FAKE comments!

[@robsimer9296]

Hyperbolic BS.....i.e. a typical youtuber.

[@VRG_HQ]

Click bait bullshit

[@hobamasucs]

Don't let the DEMOCRATS try to fix it !!!!

[@Terry-ol9io]

Read this in Jeremiah if any of you have a Bible,it speaks of the desolation of the land, and it's going to get worse.