Many years ago, there was this proposal called NAWAPA . Old enough that the web references are fragmentary and sometimes amusing, but there was a recent reference or two you might find amusing, e.g.
In summary, NAWAPA involves tapping fresh water from the northern-flowing rivers of northwest Canada and Alaska, and diverting them in a southward direction through a series of canals, lifts and drops through the Canadian Rockies and eventually to destinations in the arid regions of Southern California, Arizona and Northern Mexico. . . .
Here's what NAWAPA would do, if the effort was put into getting it built in the spirit of the WPA projects of the Great Depression era:
1. Tens of thousands of jobs would be created that would last for years while the project is constructed.
2. Fresh water would be deployed to arid regions of the Southwestern U.S. that would be used for irrigating crops, whose proliferation would cool the planet and create added rainfall.
3. Massive amounts of surplus, clean hydro-electric power, beyond that tapped to drive NAWAPA, itself, would light up whole regions of the West.
4. As the world's fast-emerging most scarce resource, an abundance of new resources of fresh water would be tapped and effectively deployed to avert shortages. fcnp.com
Thought you'd particularly like #3, who say's there's no free lunch? The whole thing sounds really, really implausible on the face of it, but who can say? But... first google hit that shows up traces back to Lyndon LaRouche, a guy not exactly known for really tight analysis. Maybe he was just ahead of his time, though. schillerinstitute.org
Edit: For more amusement, there's this ancient little promo thing from youtube.com , which in the commentary has the classic LaRouche signature of some weird Queen of England conspiracy thing. |
