The Times-Picayune
The Mississippi River runs wilder near its mouth, breaking its banks in locations that provide reminders of its power while posing problems for the country’s management of the mighty waterway.
How best to deal with those problems — spanning shipping, coastal land loss and drinking water — is a growing concern that a new initiative is now set to tackle, with a focus on practical solutions.
A grant from the National Science Foundation will support the effort that will include experts in Louisiana and beyond. The Baton Rouge-based Water Institute, the University of New Orleans, Nunez Community College and the California Institute of Technology will collaborate on the project now getting off the ground.
“It's pretty well understood and sort of acknowledged by a lot of people that flow loss from the river in many different ways is going to be a large portion of how we deal with management of the Mississippi River going on into the future,” said Christopher Esposito, a research geoscientist with The Water Institute helping lead the project.
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