Great civilizations have always built massive water projects.  The aqueducts are one of the great sites of Rome.  Southern California grew because of two huge water projects, the Owen Valley and the California Aqueduct.  The TVA was one of the lasting contributions of the Franklin Roosevelt’s Reconstruction.  Now it time to bring more water to the American West.

I propose that we spend billions to dam the Yukon River and with a little pumping, a lot of engineering and several hundred thousand construction jobs bring the water through the Frazier, Snake and Colorado River Valleys to the sunny, fertile and now arid fields of the South West.

A dam on the Green River

We are the stewards of the planet we should manage the resources the best way we know how.  Water project to feed the people are something we know how to do and are a lasting legacy.  In Segovia a hundred foot high arched aqueduct built by the Romans in the year 100AD is still being used to irrigate fields.