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-59

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.