They’re still after the Klamath farmers? Thought American Rivers and Nature Conservancy had bought up the place to sell some to the gov to recoup costs and the rest to members to hobby farm.
Many decades ago, when the federal money was flowing freely, the Corp of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation were in their peak. There were lots of projects proposed at the time but never went anywhere.
One of these was the Ah Pah dam on the Klamath. There were also 2 more dams on the Colorado river proposed, one being the Bridge Canyon dam. But these would have flooded the Grand Canyon.
The biggest of all the projects was NAWAPA which would bring water from Alaska and British Columbia to the lower 48 and northern Mexico.
Search the internet for more info on these projects.
But the reality is the California voters approved $7.5 billion for solving water problems last Nov and some of that goes to surface water storage projects: Sites Reservoir, Temperance Flat Dam, and raising Shasta dam.
Two years ago, when they were two years into the drought, people scoffed at these expensive solutions. But now, 4 years into the drought, it all seems more reasonable.