On: Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows

[hex4def6]

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/fresh-wat...

You have nearly 10 times the freshwater per capita compared to the US. How selfish /s.

Let's thinks of a casus belli. How about something like: "Trillions of gallons of fresh water flow uselessly into the frozen northern seas every year due to Canadian inaction. We are stepping in to build the infrastructure needed to save that water and feed the continent. "

[gedy → hex4def6]

It was a proposal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...

[quickthrowman → gedy]

So was damming the Strait of Gibraltar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

Both ideas are equally as likely to be implemented.

[hex4def6 → gedy]

So what you're saying is, we have a blueprint and it's theoretically possible. That makes it worse.

Co-operation from our northern neighbor would be appreciated. But, perhaps, not required, given a thirst great enough.

[kibwen → gedy]

It was a political stunt, not a serious proposal.

> The Corps of Engineers studied this project in the 1950s and 1960s, but no official proposal was ever developed.