The mighty Mississippi, America's water highway, is dangerously low

In the middle of the shrunken Mississippi, a barge drags a giant metal-edged suction head along the riverbed to remove sediment from shipping lanes. A barge is tied up at the only accessible dock as soybeans are shot from a huge metal spout into its hold. 

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