Re: "If the Old River Control Structure Fails: A Catastrophe With Global Impact"
"Funny, The Rhine and the Meuse are not exactly tiny creeks, and the Dutch seem to have managed this "folly" for centuries. Made a serious field of science and engineering out of it, actually."
Seriously?
Rhine watershed is 185,000 square kilometers, Mississippi watershed is 3,220,000 square km. They are not quite comparable. Meuse is barely mentionable at 34,548 square km.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse