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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 345495" data-attributes="member: 389">Polar ice caps, Greenland, receding glaciers, etc.- - - Updated - - -Personally, I'd like to keep the Californiacators west of Vegas, at a minimum.- - - Updated - - -I'm pretty sure it won't be a private entity.  No way they could navigate/fund the environmental studies this would require, much less fund the construction of something that would involve eminent domain of so much land.  Nah, this would be a Corps of Engineers, or Bureau of Reclamation style project.  Most likely a Reclamation project with a Corps permit since Reclamation owns the dams on the Colorado River into which the water would go and the Corps mostly manages the Mississippi.  As far as the Great Lakes pact, that is simply a pact between the states to oppose any project that were to divert Great Lakes water out of the Great Lakes watershed.  It doesn't have the weight of federal law, which is what would be required to divert water from the Mississippi to the Colorado.- - - Updated - - -Mehh, we do it all the time.  Minnetucky moves water around quite a bit in between different watersheds.  There's a Milk River diversion that takes water from the Missouri watershed into the Hudson's Bay watershed.  All kinds of water diversions exist in this country.  When you really think about it, water is just another resource/commodity.  Why we think it's any different than oil, coal, iron, copper, wheat, or cars escapes my logic.  We are irrationally attached to water because it has multiple uses (drinking, beer making, fishing, etc), but at the end of the day...water moves in the direction of money.</blockquote>

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