The Mississippi River Is DYING & A Terrifying Crisis Is Unfolding

The Mississippi River Is DYING & A Terrifying Crisis Is Unfolding
This is the Greater Mississippi River Basin, the most extensive inland transportation network on the planet. This river system was instrumental in the US emerging as a continental power. It supports more than a million square miles of fertile agricultural land and supplies drinking water to over 20 million people. But lately, we've been hearing that the water level of the Mississippi River is at an all-time low. One month, we hear about the river drying up and the next month, it’s flooding again. The real issue is that in people’s attempt to control this powerful river, it has been turned from a dynamic natural system into an over-engineered canal, and now, that system is falling apart. Today, let’s explore why the Mississippi River is dying and why it might be too late to save this river.
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[@theoutdoorslifetv3200]

Don't listen to this bot. They know nothing about the river. Throughout history, the river has been subject to massive variation. We have been navigating the river since Fulton invented the steamboat. Currently, the gauge at Baton Rouge is 32 feet. 20 feet more than last year. Its not expected to drop below 28 feet until June 22nd. It is a natural cycle.

[@kennethrogers1129]

You got it dude good comment

[@richardreger6026]

Running 15 ft here Dubuque Iowa not dying here

[@jimtrantham4532]

As a truck driver, I've been crossing the Mississippi River for the past 16 years. It rises and lowers, always has always will.

[@oldnick4707]

Exactly, and it's actually very beautiful in most places.

[@blipco5]

If you live in a floodplain… expect a flood. 👍

[@budgarner3522]

Doh!

[@miastory247]

i tried to take my sailboat down from Ft Madison and got as far as MO. the locks and dams were just too dangerous. the rocks placed along the banks made overnighting a problem. i destroyed part of my centerboard on them. once i grounded on a sand bar and had to get out of the boat to push it off. i had sores on my body for days. the only fish were channel and flathead cats and carp. many of the farmers i talked with said the tributaries were rising on their lands, permanently over a period of years. all this was enough to sour me on the river. iowa factory farms dump tons of waste into the river via tributaries. corn and soy are genetically modified to tolerate certain chems which creates dead zones on land where they are used. we are losing our resilient land. small farms are being killed off and replaced by big business. unhealthy food is being produced and cruelty to farm animals is common. i think mother nature needs to just wash it all away. poor caretakers of the land should not be farming. but really this all comes down to the consumer allowing such to happen.

[@ebayerr]

Yes. I bought a jar of mayonnaise the other day and while looking for the "best by" date,I read that the mayonnaise was created using all bio-engineered ingredients.

[@putheflamesoutyahoo1503]

consumer???....there is NO man on earth that is MORE greedy than a rich farmer that pays NO taxes.........look at Deere stock.....big big big NO small/////UNFAIR tax gov good ol boy greed!!!!! Nobody admits this cause tiny is stifled....build a small house and you will be torn down...LOL...no fish,,lol,,,no new human names owning land...GREED TO FEED CHINA....and farmers gf go to food banks for them since food programs come from farm budget,,,,,,,,,,yu are dealing with new millionaire bump buddies....family farms yes but same is millionaire buddies manipulating farm programs and sales. LOL, you think farmers are working hard in fields???..2 weeks to 2 months....the rest is foreign betting Vegas and bump parties at NASCAR etc promoting subsidized ethenol and consumerism to raise oil...they love it...High prices and NO taxes

[@cht2162]

Excellent!!!!!!!

[@mariantreber8055]

Make your own. ..it's super easy. You be videos abound.

[@mariantreber8055]

KZbin

[@longrider42]

Its not dying. The truth of the matter is the rivers and streams that form the Headwaters of the Mississippi, well there was this thing called a Drought, this past winter. Not much snow fell. Even in Yellowstone National Park, Not a lot of snow. So with out all the snow, and so far very little rain. Of course the river is going to run low, and this is not the first time, that I know of, that its happened. Do some research before you go off Half Cocked.

[@roellopez3737]

You took the fun out of the end of the world story 😂😂😂😂, but you are right with your assessment ❤.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

Nah it’s dying with the whole earth

[@MikeHunt-mf1hc]

88 it ran dry In Memphis

[@annhenry6893]

You're right. The river is fine. It will be the little baby bears that destroy it. Poor river....its just fine.

[@jeffgerndt2813]

Nature always wins. Restore some floodplains.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

Actually Nature is always losing…

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

@@Michael0663-qo4wx Nah nature always wins, even if it means it has to go extreme and wipe out the current major life forms on the planet before resetting itself.

[@oldnick4707]

Actually Nature's just fine, and so is the Mississippi River. I don't know why it is that weirdo leftists refuse to understand the cyclic nature of our world.

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

Looks to me a good fix to one major issue would be to have farmers along the Mississippi to change what products they farm to rotate through ones helpful for the river without using chemicals.

[@Lumpy-Grits-and-Jowls]

A river’s gonna do what a river’s gonna do!

[@josephconsuegra6420]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mississippi Valley Division announced the drought that plagued the Mississippi River basin since 2022 is officially over. Low water conditions began in the region in September 2022.

[@f1at111]

It was announcement in February 2024 by the Army Core of Engineers that the Mississippi drought is officially over.

[@josephbaggettjr3493]

The preacher man says it's the end of time And the Mississippi River, she's a-goin' dry The interest is up and the stock market's down And you only get mugged if you go downtown I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive I can plow a field all day long I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn (Yeah) We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain't too many things these old boys can't do We grow good-ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run 'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns We say grace, and we say ma'am If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn We came from the West Virginia coal mines And the Rocky Mountains, and the western skies And we can skin a buck, we can run a trot line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive I had a good friend in New York City He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly My grandpa taught me how to live off the land And his taught him to be a businessman He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights And I'd send him some homemade wine But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife For 43 dollars, my friend lost his life I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes And shoot him with my old .45 'Cause a country boy can survive Country folks can survive 'Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run 'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns We say grace, and we say ma'am If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn We're from North California and South Alabam' And little towns all around this land And we can skin a buck, and run a trotline And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive A country boy can survive Country folks can survive

[@user-wz7eq2qz3c]

The interest is up and the stock markets screwed And you only get the virus if you watch the news

[@GaryKiefer-vn7kr]

Gotta love Hank Jr.

[@onetransmission7871]

Put in an offer on a few acres in the country last week. I'm not staying in the city any longer.

[@crspcritter]

Amen 🤠👍👌

[@joltjolt5060]

Add who sings it next time, for the non Americans. :) they need some Hank, too.

[@WebbScoutLeader]

"Federal Reserve Budget" what is that?

[@scott9414]

Notice how utterly WRONG the map they show at the first of the video is. Just completely wrong.

[@appaloosa42]

Not really. The Three Rivers of Western Pennsylvania actually contribute more water than the ‘source’.

[@scott9414]

@@appaloosa42 yrs really, I'm speaking of the map shown in the first of the vid that shows the state of Arkansas. I never spoke at all of volume, just geographical placement

[@chrisconklin2981]

Thank you for your presentation and you made some good points. The modern history of the Mississippi can be viewed in three parts. You mention the original first part of levee building spurred by the 1927 floods. This effort created it's own set of problems. The second part was when the US Army Corp of Emener's got the message and started to control water flows with upstream dams, a good example being the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Now the third part, as you mentioned, is an effort to "re-wild" the river by letting flood water spread into adjacent lowlands.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

Whatever is best for shareholders over protecting the environment is the American Way ever since we stole it all from the Natives.

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

Same can be said anywhere on the planet.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

@@Twotone-ld1fb Yeah but Americans were the pioneers of capitalist exploitation and industrial deforestation under Manifest Destiny. American consumers also produce the most material waste and CO2 emissions per capita than any other country.

[@Twotone-ld1fb]

@@Michael0663-qo4wx Really, I thought China and India had taken the cake of material waste and CO2 emissions ever since we shipped all our production over seas. Manufacturing is where a good chunk of the worlds pollution comes from. And manufacturers are the real producers of material waste, the consumers just buy it before wasting it. And since China and Indias populations are WAY higher then ours they are much bigger consumer markets. SO I think you need to re-examine your fact sheet. As to Americans being pioneers of deforestation we also learn from our mistakes..... usually. We do a better job now of managing our lands, though we still aren't perfect. Also recycling is a myth. Nearly all plastic recycling was getting shipped to china for them to handle and they handled it by just dumping the majority of it in the ocean.

[@Michael0663-qo4wx]

@@Twotone-ld1fb Yeah America is greatest country on the planet bruh. We know. Even though our culture sucks, everyone is depressed and lonely with mental health issues and mass shootings are a routine occurrence, USA is still better than all of Europe and anywhere else right? Yeah we know. Everybody knows.

[@timothykeith1367]

The natives never practiced property law. Without the law there can be no ownership

[@eilenekellogg-ki2br]

I beg to differ, money or riches always wins.

[@Finness894]

So, first Americans screw up the river by trying to "control" it. and now they are "seeding" clouds to Make it Rain and refill the river.?! Absolute geniuses.!.! KEEP UP THE GOOD JOB !

[@jimmyconway8025]

A shame wouldn't be possible to export agriculture products without it also the energy industry

[@jamesroberts2115]

Live a stone's throw away from the Mississippi. Was up on the levee this morning for a walk. It looked pretty lively to me. Plenty of waterborne traffic.

[@darryllandry9904]

I think what will really happen is years of massive precipitation are coming again and all systems will be overwhelmed. Water always wins.

[@budgarner3522]

"Over engineered" - well said. Need an even bigger picture approach. Invasion of the Gulf of Mexico when water levels drop by drought or deepening is something that is rarely considered. And, as blipco5 pointed out, why do they call them floodplains? The next time you drive through the basin look for evidence of swampland that has been drained to accommodate agriculture or population growth.

[@xlerb2286]

I wouldn't say it's dying. It's a very managed system and trying to contain something that dynamic is going to be a problem at the best of times. And a more chaotic climate is not the best of times. We need to step back and look at what the river will allow us to do vs. what we think we want to do. In short, build on the deltas and flood plains and you'll get what you deserve - one way or another.

[@alexthurmane4]

1981 Hank Jr told us “The preacher man says it's the end of time And the Mississippi River, she's a-goin' dry

[@candysalazar4170]

What a bunch of crap 😢

[@charlesprice7608]

Umm it’s currently at flood stages in southern Missouri!

[@secretsquirrel1534]

Funny I am currently in Minnesota where the Mississippi starts at . The Water Level is Higher than it's been in many Years !!!

[@kennethrogers1129]

Oh Bull, River is up, we need more upland water retention like ponds and lakes

[@gardengeek3041]

The river is bound to reflect the extremes of flooding and drought on the lands that it drains.

[@rosspayne2235]

I live 2 miles from the river it's up to it's banks and there's still snow on the ground in places up north

[@TahoeJones]

"The Sky is Falling!" 😮😂

[@ladavis1959]

Man would have better luck trying to control the weather than the Mississippi. We would be prudent to work on our own adaptability and emulate the wildlife.

[@randybeard6040]

The Miss. River is Alive and Well, Cleaner than it has been in Decades, the only problem is that Asian Carp have over-taken the River...

[@christinetucker-wd9qh]

Always wondered if Mississippi River was actually a fault line

[@timothykeith1367]

The path of the river must have been a natural prehistoric feature

[@prodigalpriest]

I've noticed that as well. New Madrid, Missouri is right on the Mississippi River and they had a really bad earthquake some time during the 19th Century.

[@dudleyowens]

Ooooh... I'm ascared!

[@richardchiriboga4424]

I imagine that someday there will be a monumental disaster there.

[@franktank4360]

Unless there's a major drought which is highly unlikely.

[@Wowdude.]

Yessir and many of not all of those backwaters have filled in over time. Pool 12 has actuality had dredging operations done to the east bank backwater lakes. In those, the fish specie have made a comeback. It's worth it to fish them once again.

[@ABonRMS]

Not only dying but about to kill the Great Lakes with invasive carp. It was caused by a manmade canal, now what are ya going to do!

[@dang6832]

Maybe it’s time for a series of dams with locks for ship travel. The water could at least partially be controlled and there would be less chemicals as they fall in the water onto the river bed if I remember correctly. However, what other problems would this possible solution cause?

[@richarda996]

The Army Core of the Engineers has become too fat to do a proper job of maintaining the river. They need to relearn how to work with nature. After fifty years of working in the delta in Louisiana I have noticed the changes over the years.

[@dknowles60]

but the barge companys need welfare, they dont pay their way much

[@allencampbell8322]

Certain corp of engineers are the problem

[@larrysorenson4789]

Total bs.

[@brandonmccain2297]

I live at the river delta, this is bull, the river is high right now...as it should be

[@appaloosa42]

The map is the first one that includes the Monongahela and Allegheny feeding the Ohio. However the Monongahela is the largest water source for the Mississippi, but the Allegheny is not as navigable as the map shows.

[@appaloosa42]

150 years aho one could walk across the Monongahela in the summer. Now we only worry about too much rain in West Virginia!

[@DennelYonts]

​@@appaloosa42.h8

[@dancarillo5461]

The point is, why aren’t more Americans interested in understanding and foreseeing any challenges and adverse effects that could hamper future economic progress, agricultural productions and / or community development. Now, America hasn’t always been perfect and, yet, it’s still the greatest country in the world because the American people will work together to create a more perfect and prosperous union through technological innovation, scientific advancement and economic sustainability including increasing environmental simpatico and elevating our quality of life not only for those in the present but also for future generations of American people and their descendants. Isn’t that the point? That’s what truly matters and it’s why America will always be the greatest country.

[@normanhartmann9022]

Simply, 1 The rise of illegitimate argument of States’ rights to reserved power to squelch the most basic of governmental just functions and public authorities to offshoots of acquiescence to corporate tyranny by a new-age feudalism, exacerbated by outworn municipal and rural-disoriented abridge- ments of public assembly by libertarian and false Christian mythology; 2 Messing with the sanity of people by jurisdictional irrelevancy and chronological inadmissibility in Daylight Saving Time; 3 Social discord bases of age discrimination challenged as discrimination against racial minorities or women of all races but not all ages, which prevents good will for common defense expressed in the cynical misinterpre- tation of the Second Amendment as not related to the pretext of the First Amendment, thus in turn either the constant contempt from abandonment of domestic tranquility, or religious sneering indifference to pre-sumptuous boasting of works by heretics who have no acceptance of unacceptable serenity through foreign tranquility by peace that means nothing and is uninviting to the multitudes to ignore their daily bread in exchange for social media reels which do not go with tartar sauce; 4 A loss of real sincerity of allegiance to the nation as allegiance to the people and its citizenry, with impersonal casual derision of gallant streaming as broad stripes and leaders as bright stars in the main focus of integrated public mobility in the quality of living necessary to pursuit of happiness, making the great majority jaded or self-deprecated.

[@normanhartmann9022]

Simply, 1 The rise of illegitimate argument of States’ rights to reserved power to squelch the most basic of governmental just functions and public authorities to offshoots of acquiescence to corporate tyranny by a new-age feudalism, exacerbated by outworn municipal and rural-disoriented abridge- ments of public assembly by libertarian and false Christian mythology; 2 Messing with the sanity of people by jurisdictional irrelevancy and chronological inadmissibility in Daylight Saving Time; 3 Social discord bases of age discrimination challenged as discrimination against racial minorities or women of all races but not all ages, which prevents good will for common defense expressed in the cynical misinterpre- tation of the Second Amendment as not related to the pretext of the First Amendment, thus in turn either the constant contempt from abandonment of domestic tranquility, or religious sneering indifference to pre-sumptuous boasting of works by heretics who have no acceptance of unacceptable serenity through foreign tranquility by peace that means nothing and is uninviting to the multitudes to ignore their daily bread in exchange for social media reels which do not go with tartar sauce; 4 A loss of real sincerity of allegiance to the nation as allegiance to the people and its citizenry, with impersonal casual derision of gallant streaming as broad stripes and leaders as bright stars in the main focus of integrated public mobility in the quality of living necessary to pursuit of happiness, making the great majority jaded or self-deprecated.

[@rogeredrinn4592]

Why did you leave out the Ohio and Tennessee River?

[@rednekokie]

Like all the other calamities that we, as humans, have generated, we only have ourselves and our greed to blame for this catastrophe.

[@garryharrington8255]

WRONG WRONG WRONG IST JUST WEATHER CHANGING. ITS BEEN CHANGING FOR EVER FOOL .. AND WILL KEEP CHANGING FOOL

[@rgTORO_grOSO]

👽s👈

[@Bill-sp8kb]

Still drinking the Kool aid, you are? 😂😂

[@DannyHenderson-zj7mw]

Exactly... Right

[@valeriegiles6524]

Nothing on earth is run or controlled by humans. All this world's "leaders" sold their souls thou. Don't be afraid of leaving this world. Home is on the otherside of the veil.

[@user-wz7eq2qz3c]

I guess the main takeaway is fck around and find out. There's always consequences to messing with the natural order of things

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

The industrial revolution might have played a significant role in climate change.

[@jimroberts5461]

Too bad you didn't discuss the constant raising of the levees by the government to where the bottom of the river is now above sea level and the weight of the sediment is pushing the land and New Orleans down below sea level. New Orleans is a doomed city and not worth the billions of dollars to save. Better to let the Mississippi river change course and move to the west of where it now enters the Gulf of Mexico.

[@satinsteeldad]

And when California goes into the ocean what's going to happen to these places

[@normanhartmann9022]

When Mount Aconcagua explodes, the tsunami will revive the Mississippi River and then some.

[@philzail2532]

Well I guess that means all the other lakes and rivers will die also?

[@garygatto3410]

Maybe we will continue to come out of this dry pattern that we’ve been in for the last 18 months. We’ll see you at August 2024 brings.

[@TriPham-yo7we]

Maybe people try build hydrogen bomb by extracting hydrogen out of water just like china had the same problem to use gas mix hydrogen from water for cooking and soon no more agriculture and drinking water

[@wishbone1282]

Just put a dam at the end of the river

[@eliasthienpont6330]

🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 THE LION WAS HERE 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 No. 490

[@firecloud77]

Never ending *FEAR MONGERING.* What is your motivation for this dishonesty?

[@slsoefoif7678]

Whether one agrees or in foggy denial - It’s in the BIBLE - the end is near and even secular history and events prove this. Worry not for this must happen so, HE, YESHUA/JESUS THE MESSIAH SON OF GOD can return. Stay strong with faith over fear, HIS Faith/Truth, no matter what, this too shall pass. ⛓️‍💥🎯🗺️🎺🦁🐑🛐

[@DrewOdell-vv4gt]

Misleading and some incorrect information!! I have lived in Iowa and along the Mississippi River my whole life and my Grandfather Hartzell ran a river barge and Ferry for decades on the Mississippi in the 50's in Iowa our Most fertile fields for growing crops have been covered over with concrete and blacktop to make New business instead of growing crops to feed America,do you know the Mid-West area feeds 90% of our country? And politicians are coveting up the fertile fields to make sure China can buy alot so they can ship the goods back to China since they own the land and crops=cattle on it also!! So Americans get less and less!! And we have 4 times more backwaters along the Mississippi River than we do actual river,the channel is only a few hundred feet wide at its best,but the river and backwater are about a mile wide in alot of places and in Clinton Iowa at Eagle Point Park you can barely see the other side of the river,because it is so wide there..

[@Wowdude.]

Some backwater lakes in pool 12 have been dredged, bringing back the game fish. Once again it's worth it to fish them , almost like back in the old days. They've really done a number on that river with their locks and dam system. 😢.

[@eightycubicft]

This wouldn’t have anything to do with the poison they are spraying in the atmosphere would it?

[@silvananeal5276]

WARNING: Robotic Voice Alert and annoying music Too bad. Interesting subject.

[@justanamerican9024]

IMHO, the Mississippi is a tributary of the Missouri River

[@jeffmyers4280]

bs I have lived by it my whole life it changes all the time it's a fkn river

[@user-uk2ji1yw5t]

Somebody don't know what they are talking about until they really study this an stop telling lies. I f the Mississippi was actually going dry then it would be so low here in St. Cloud that a person would not be able to use boats here and would be able to walk across here. One more thing about this river back around the '40s my family was able to walk across the river at the time the river was less than knee deep. In Monticello, Mn.

[@bobanderson413]

Misinformation from woke jounalism. Mississippi has always gone through flood/drought cycles. They are not more extreme.

[@r.pres.4121]

This has nothing to do with being woke.

[@carolbrownleehalbert3593]

AGAIN?????

[@jeffreyreed5299]

Where do you come up with this crap???

[@scottpedersen3337]

The sky is falling. This is bs

[@UQRXD]

Load of lies and stuff made up. KZbin what do you expect.

[@pamelarobbins1462]

Totally wrong!

[@nerapsnart]

So tired of fake titles to draw people in just to be given a history lesson. Bunch of bull regarding the title.

[@fidobite3798]

Gee, I bet if I could come back in a 100 yrs the Miss.basin will still be pretty much as it is now. I'm sick of all of these doomsday video click-gettersn Adios.

[@ronaldstoddard6049]

This is magnificent ,,, we have rising oceans according to Democrats /// less water is good....

[@booksteer7057]

Repetitive! I could only listen for six minutes before I had enough.

[@robertking3539]

Bunch of computer generated dume and glume nonsence

[@harrybaulz666]

Bull schitt

[@tomfish1285]

A.I. narration absolutely sucks.

[@kirkgoshert7876]

blah blah blah

[@1jostaclo]

Clickbait useless video devoid of science and reality.

[@kennardjohnson7875]

Mississippi River is doing fine, bull crap video.

[@user-sk4pw5fb5q]

We suck it dry like the Colorado