Who needs Great Lakes water when Canada can supply us with all the water we’ll need!

First, I read yesterday that some Nevada officials are pressing for a ‘water initiative’ to bring ’surplus unallocated fresh and desalinated ocean waters to the more arid regions of the West’, and then I wake up this morning to find that there is another project being talked about that would make such a national water system look puny in comparison. Cadillac Desert readers will remember the old NAWAPA, and now … we have NAWA, which would bring us all the water we could ever need! Honey, call up that contractor and build that pool! From the Water Wired blog, Michael Campana gives us the details of this latest grandiose plan:

Imagine, in the not-too-distant future lush Kentucky bluegrass lawns in Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas with no guilt feelings. Fountains and verdant gardens gracing the Las Vegas Strip. Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) halving water rates with a broad grin on her face. Georgia cheerfully donating Lake Lanier water to Alabama and Florida, and building a pipeline to supply Tennessee with all the H2O it needs.

You’d say, “What have you been smoking?” Or worse.

Well, looks like something similar to NAWAPA is in the works, again exporting water from the Great White North. So how does it work? Dam the southern half of James Bay, the southern arm of Hudson Bay, run the water through helical turbines, then dump it in the Great Lakes for distribution to the USA and Canada’s prairie provinces. The scheme will provide Canada with hydroelectricity and almost $8B in revenue.

Colleague Paul Godfrey of the University of Massachusetts sent me some slides prepared by Canadian Romain Audet that describe how all this will work. It’s pretty awesome.

Check it out by clicking here to visit the Water Wired blog, and while you’re doing that, I’m going to call up the contractor to get that pool put in, and get my yard resodded with Kentucky Bluegrass – to heck with fescue!!!

I think I need a new category …. “Grandiose Water Schemes”

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