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California has a long, long history of water and pipelines. They even made a great movie out of the topic (Chinatown). This guy had a lot to do with much of t

California has a long, long history of water and pipelines. They even made a great movie out of the topic (Chinatown). This guy had a lot to do with much of the pipeline engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulholland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mulholland And this is basically what serves all of San Francisco (and the Bay area's) water needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy

dalke 12y ago
And that's only the relatively sane pipeline. There's also the proposals to pipe water down from Alaska, as in http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-25/news/mn-596_1_water-problem http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-25/news/mn-596_1_water-p... , with a Congressional Office of Technology Assessment[1] background paper at https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1992/9203/9203.PDF https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1992/9203/9203.PDF . [1] Yes, Congress used to have an office designed to help members of Congress understand science and technology. Congress, under Newt Gingrich, defunded it.