When you start adding up the impacts of drought in the other systems such as the Snake River, Boise, Salmon, Owyhee, Humbolt, Carson, Walker, and Truckee River systems that feed the sinks and lakes within the Great Basin, you start to realize how those affect the Rockies.

Severe drought in the west means severe drought in the Midwest. One solution is gravity flumes of sea water pumped into alkali flats of the Great Basin to change the hydrology back to what it was before European settlers started damming and diverting water from the sinks in the desert. This changed the hydrology and of the basin, resulting in less monsoonal releases during the summer, and less lake effect snow during the winter.


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