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   From: sss@example.de   
      
   On 9/20/2024 3:58 PM, Alan wrote:   
   > For the record:   
   >   
   > There is no "very large faucet".   
   >   
   > There is currently no way that turning such a faucet could divert water   
   > to California.   
      
      
   You must never have seen the Owens (dry) Lake or the film "Chinatown".   
      
   Let it alone Alan, you know what happens to nosey kitty kats...   
      
   https://youtu.be/XraW_dIy0rg   
      
      
   https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-04-me-181-story.html   
      
   County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn proposed a big solution Thursday to Los   
   Angeles’ big water problem--digging aqueducts that would carry water to   
   California from the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest and the   
   Snake River in Idaho.   
      
   The waterways not only would lick the drought, Hahn said, but also would   
   provide jobs to thousands of aerospace workers laid off because of   
   defense cuts.   
      
   “We’ve had proposals to tow icebergs, too,” commented Maury Roos, chief   
   hydrologist for the state Department of Water Resources. “This is a   
   little more serious than that.”   
      
   https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/04/10/a-water-pipeline   
   from-oregon-to-california/   
      
   https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article237605349.html   
      
   https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-21/columbia-river-water-pipeline   
      
   https://columbiainsight.org/for-drought-plagues-california-diver   
   ing-columbia-river-water-is-a-pipe-dream-for-now/   
      
   For decades, the Pacific Northwest has responded to and fended off   
   efforts to divert its water, particularly from the Columbia River, to   
   the Southwest, and particularly to California or Colorado.   
      
   These “inter-basin transfers” were proposed from Oregon, Washington,   
   Alaska and British Columbia.   
      
   For example, in 1968 as Congress debated authorization of the Colorado   
   River Basin Project, House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee   
   Chairman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado said the authorizing bill would only   
   initiate a series of studies by the Department of the Interior.   
      
   “Water is the lifeblood of this area, and unless new sources can be   
   found, this thriving, prosperous, large segment of our Nation is, in my   
   opinion, on a collision course with economic disaster,” said Aspinall.   
      
   Northwest members of Congress noted the veiled threat of “new sources,”   
   to which Aspinall responded, “representatives of the Northwest felt that   
   their area was the target of the studies for new sources of water. This,   
   of course, is understandable, since water flow records on the Columbia   
   River show that more than 10 times the average annual flow of the   
   Colorado River empties unused into the Pacific Ocean each year.”   
      
   The word “unused” became something of a rallying cry for the diverters.   
      
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