Always thirsty California has periodically set its sights
on water from outside state borders. After sucking the interior Owens Valley
and Mono Lake dry early in the 20th century it blasted a tunnel to
tap flows of the Colorado River in neighboring Arizona.
Now the leader of the Star Ship Enterprise has come up
with an idea he says could solve his state’s progressively worsening drought.
Just build a big pipeline down the Interstate-5 corridor
says actor William Shatner, whose comments often leave listeners bemused at the
quriky television Captain Kirk.
Shatner's possibly facetious
(or maybe not) suggestion of harnessing Northwest water for California is not
the first time a similar idea has been floated.
In 1964 the Los Angeles based Metropolitan Water District let flow
the concept of a pipeline to Alaska which would make its way through Washington
and Oregon, irrigating arid areas of both states on its way south to the
promised La-La land.
A video with narration as grandiose as the proposal
envisioned an eventual "nuclear-powered
agro-industrial complex," augmented
by ocean water made potable by complex desalinization systems.
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