[SES1066]

You could employ countless construction workers building desalination plants, laying the pipelines for transit, pumping stations and much more and collect loads of tax revenue in the sales of clean useable water to revitalized towns and the thousands of new homes that could be built in the desert if they had water.

Run that by the Sierra Club and see their response - it would be a major ecological disaster!

[reefdiver]

It would, but what is happening now is a disaster, a good politician could lay out a road map and the public would be with him. You could run over the Sierra Club.