www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210819 Declarations of Water Delivery Shutdowns Announce Vast Destruction of Western Agriculture.pdf?_t=1630170047
Prior to 1971, the U.S. government had been planning to build the water infrastructure that was needed decades into the future. Two projects in the West highlight the great vision and determination to create, as did those like Franklin Roosevelt, great projects that transformed the nation, uplifting it to a new power of productive capability.
The first such project was the North American Water and Power Alliance, to create a continental water management system, extending from the rivers of Alaska, all the way to Mexico and the entire mid-west region of Canada and the U.S. As planned, the project would have been delivering abundant water to the Southwest region of the U.S. by the 1990s. Endorsed by Senator Robert Kennedy and sponsored in the Congress by Senator Frank Moss of Utah, the legislation was allowed to die after that August 15, 1971 declaration of national suicide.
The second project was introduced by U.S. President John Kennedy in 1962-63. The president’s policy was to begin building very large nuclear-powered desalination plants on the California coast and that of other states. Even after his assassination, the Atomic Energy Commission of the U.S signed the first contract for building such a facility at Huntington Beach, CA with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Despite extensive hearings in the Congress and detailed planning for that first complex, the emergence of the counter-culture driven environmentalist insanity of the late 1960s, combined with the August 15, 1971 emergence of a casino economy, allowed that project to just die.
