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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
My favorite was a fully fledged out plan to flood a large portion of the east side of the Kootaneys, through the Shuswap basin I think, creating a massive reservoir that could then be piped down to the south. In the early 2000s. It even went as far as to map out potential costs, which were reasonable because water is essentially free!
Soon after there was a mini-series put out called H20, that starred Paul Gross and dealt with the political side of a future water war. I should watch it again, the replay will probably hit harder nowadays.
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There were proposed plans several years ago to dam James Bay and turn it into a large fresh water reservoir for export. I can't imagine how difficult the engineering would be or how expensive it would be. One day it might make sense to go forward with something like that. From what I recall at the time, it made more sense to do something like that in the east as opposed to the west because the topography would facilitate the flow of water south more easily without the need for a lot of pumping.
i am not worried about the U.S. ever invading Canada for water, but there may come a day where they put substantial economic and political pressure on us to sell them water.