The California Water Crisis
The most critical long term issue facing the State of California is adequate water resources.
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"People have died over water. You know, movies have been made about the wars of water in California,"
Governor Schwarzenegger told 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl.
"Chinatown," Stahl remarked.
"Exactly," Schwarzenegger replied. "So water has been one of those issues."
It's one of those issues that is pitting Californians against each other for every last drop.
Schwarzenegger says his state is in crisis. "We've been in crisis for quite some time because we're now 38 million people and not anymore 18 million people like we were in the late 60s. So it developed into a battle between environmentalists and farmers and between the south and the north and between rural and urban. And everyone has been fighting for the last four decades about water."
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Click here to learn more about the California Water Crisis.
"People have died over water. You know, movies have been made about the wars of water in California,"
Governor Schwarzenegger told 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl.
"Chinatown," Stahl remarked.
"Exactly," Schwarzenegger replied. "So water has been one of those issues."
It's one of those issues that is pitting Californians against each other for every last drop.
Schwarzenegger says his state is in crisis. "We've been in crisis for quite some time because we're now 38 million people and not anymore 18 million people like we were in the late 60s. So it developed into a battle between environmentalists and farmers and between the south and the north and between rural and urban. And everyone has been fighting for the last four decades about water."
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The Solution to the California Water Crisis
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The North American Water And Power Alliance
The solution to the California Water Crisis was identified in the 1960's to lie in massive long term water delivery systems originating in Alaska and Canada.
At its Web Site, the Schiller Institute describes the plan of the NAWAPA:
"The North American Water and Power Alliance—NAWAPA—is the most comprehensive of a series of plans developed during the 1950's and 1960's to capture and redistribute fresh water in Alaska and Canada. NAWAPA would deliver large quantities of water to water-poor areas of Canada, the lower forty-eight states of the United States of America, and Mexico.
In the mid-1960s, this giant engineering project in water management was seen by leading figures in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere as the next great undertaking to which the United States should commit itself as a nation, comparable in scope and benefits to the NASA space program and the rapid and widespread development of nuclear power. (In fact, the NAWAPA plan was favorably reviewed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.)
Click here to read more at the Schiller Institute Web Site
At its Web Site, the Schiller Institute describes the plan of the NAWAPA:
"The North American Water and Power Alliance—NAWAPA—is the most comprehensive of a series of plans developed during the 1950's and 1960's to capture and redistribute fresh water in Alaska and Canada. NAWAPA would deliver large quantities of water to water-poor areas of Canada, the lower forty-eight states of the United States of America, and Mexico.
In the mid-1960s, this giant engineering project in water management was seen by leading figures in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere as the next great undertaking to which the United States should commit itself as a nation, comparable in scope and benefits to the NASA space program and the rapid and widespread development of nuclear power. (In fact, the NAWAPA plan was favorably reviewed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.)
Click here to read more at the Schiller Institute Web Site
Canada & the NAWAPA
After years of negotiating, stalling, and procrastinating , California Governmor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, finally clinches a deal with British Columbia Premier, Gordon Campbell, that is critical to the long term implementation of the NAWAPA.
At the same time, Premier Gordon Campbell signed agreements with the Governors of the States of Montana, Oregona and Washington.
More to come ........