re: The Panama Canal is running dry. That's the U.S.'s fault and the U.S.'s problem

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Idiot liberals in Califprnia want to pump water from the Mississippi thousands of miles over the fricking Rocky Mountains to solve their water problems, but pumping water from the oceans for the canal is impossibru?

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Not sure why equating two dumb ideas makes it any more feasible

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they should be able to just push it up the chain of locks using the pumps in the locks.

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There are no lumps in the locks to the best of my knowledge. It’s an elegantly simple solution that relies only on raising and lowering the lock gates. The only force moving the water is gravity.