Bill Shatner Says Seattle Has Too Much Water, Wants Water Pipeline Built To Save Cali

Bill Shatner has common sense.

The 'experts' are idiots.

Of course it's a good idea, with modern trnching equiptment and plastic mains tech they can lay 100's of meters a day, they could have it finished in a yr or so with multiple gangs working at different locations, seems some govt people are braindead when it comes to ideas like this or is possibly about money idk, either way we laid big pipelines across uk's countryside for gas in no time so....

Do a google of "metropolitan water district pipelines"

there's already hundreds of miles of pipelines
feeding water into the parasitic state of California.

IT's ALREADY BEEN DONE, you fricking morons.

are you talkin bout the star trek dude?
cause if he said it i belive it.

Some guys hate the fact that an 80 year-old guy is so healthy and so hot, and actually has a brain, while theirs is fried.

you failed geography

and everything else

They could build 68 desalinization plants and solve the drought issue for the cost of that ONE PET PORK PROJECT of the California bullet train.
...but you know all the politicians are getting rich off that useless bullet train project so it will never happen.

"California's bullet train breaks ground in Fresno today, marking a small ceremonial victory for a $68 billion project that is still mired in uncertainty."
[link to www.bizjournals.com]

"The $1 billion plant will tap the biggest water tank around, the Pacific Ocean. It will produce 50 million gallons of potable water daily"
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This is not about solving problems, it about corrupt politicians and their related beneficiaries lining their pockets with tax dollars.
68 plants would solve the water problem forever for California.

My father designed a lot of those pipelines.

I can't believe what morons you all are.

There's already a ton of water being dredged
into California from other States.

The GREAT LAKES STATES saw this coming years ago ... and BEFORE anybody could think about it the leaders (Govenors and head of their respective Legislatures) of OH, MI, and WI pushed through a compact to PREVENT the diversion of Great Lakes waters elsewhere.

With just a gentle shove CANADA agreed to it to ... and it then went through Congress as an INTERNATIONAL TREATY.

Just in the last couple of years western state have been floating the idea of Great Lakes watershed water being diverted to the West ... but alas they are CHECKMATED due to the foresight of those GL states leaders 20 years ago (they were both Republicans AND Democrats) ... since to divert those waters now would require RENEGOTIATING THE TREATY WITH A FOREIGN COUNTRY (Canada)!! (the GL states did that ON PURPOSE ... just so the US Congress could NOT by itself ORDER the water sent west ... NOBODY, Democrat OR Republican back then in those GL states trusted Washington for the future).

Unfortunately the Pac NW is eventually going to be RAPED like the Owens Valley (and the Yosemite area) was. Ever see the movie "Chinatown" (great movie with Jack Nicholson about the California Water Wars).

Thankfully ... the Great Lakes area is protected, at least for a while, due to it's treaty with Canada!! which protects it's water and it's water quality)

you fail at using a search engine.


"The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California-Arizona border west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the east side of the Santa Ana Mountains. It is one of the primary sources of drinking water for Southern California."

It needs to be run at least 20 feet off the ground, or I am out.

radioactive water

do you know where the Colorado river is? do you know where the Northwest and beyond is?

You fuckers obviously never played with a globe in school.

Another idiot

There is zero link between the Columbia River watershed and California.

The least amount of pumping stations would require a pipeline from Lake Roosevelt in Northwest Washington State to the Central Valley Project.

Google map that one dumfuks

You have a valid point, sir!

it burns

Seattle does not have "too much water". How's that for a reason why it is crazy. Just because it is rainy doesn't mean it has too much water. Number One.

That whole area is due for major earthquake, possibly soon, the whole are is riddled with faults. Not a good place to put a pipeline project. Number Two.

California needs to take care of its deficit spending of water that goes to non-essential uses, send back millions of people who are there illegally and consuming water, and investigate water projects right there in California. Number Three.

Oh that’s a lot easier than a pipe during a self evident water catastrophe.

I would think a crash program to design this pipeline, pump stations, electrical generation and aqueduct would take one billion per week for two years.

Then finally relief.

IOWs I think California is totally fucked. Its too late and nothing can be done about it.

California is one second late

DOOM!!!

Yes Bill they are jealous of you, you rock dood!

^^ this ^^

Give willy water!!!

People cant see the logic in this so it will never happen.

Its racist you know

Don't they have the time an resources to make plants to change sea water to fresh water .. And be more efficient in the long run


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I feel it's unfair the Great Lakes have so much water and we in the West have none.

It's fucking racist

Yeah, the Professor built one but Gilligan pedaled too fast and the hitch broke and he ran in to a tree.

it needs more research before it can be considered safe.


YES THEY DO HAVE desalination plants but they require a lot of power and are expensive

well said

Best GLP laugh of the weekend.

I'll happily give them some of our water in Atlanta. I'm tired of septic fields being flooded and not being able to shower or wash clothes - we have too much water here.

Washington Dept. of Ecology Drought Map and info.

[link to www.ecy.wa.gov]