water (or: the US Army Corps of Engineers vs. the Desert and associated marvels)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Nrborderborderentrythreecolorsmay05-1-.JPG
New River, CA

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/103/286854670_a0a8a39e78_z.jpg
Dead fish, Salton Sea

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Colorado River, Horseshoe Bend, AZ

http://tragerwaterreport.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/farm-california-imperial_valley_fields.jpg
Imperial Valley, CA

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Colorado River delta, US/Mexico border

several places covered by vollllmannn in imperial

I "am" reading that! (Haven't picked it up in months, this is how I read books.) So somewhat the reason for the thread.

guess the latent question here is, is there anything redeemable about all this? Would we starve if we didn't use the Colorado to farm the desert? Is it "not that bad" that 95% of the Colorado's estuarial wetlands have retreated? Can we resettle Las Vegas to the bottom of the sea?