[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Many years ago, I believe I heard of someone promoting a scheme to build a very large aqueduct on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies into Canada and the Artic and bring water down to the High Plains and use the Aquifer as a storage reservoir.
Frankly not a bad scheme!

At the time it was booed off the stage, as it would cost several billions of dollars at that time!

[gcruse]

Problem now is that Canadians do not want to sell their water. Reverse osmosis, anyone?

[Clinging Bitterly]

> At the time it was booed off the stage.

We are more liable to have real water shortages in the near future than oil shortages. Odd for this planet, 70% of which is under water.

Lately, California has been floating trial baloons on a proposal to divert a fair amount of the Columbia River's flow into their state. If you think about the growth there in the recent past decades, they must have the Colorado just about maxed out.

Getting water from the Columbia to California is a doable thing, and it would likely stir up an economic boom in Oregon and California that would last a lifetime, but there would be a cost in depleting another great western river that future generations would bear someday.

I think we need to figure something else out here.

Dave in Eugene