In 1964, engineers proposed capturing Alaska's rivers and sending them thousands of miles to America's driest deserts
- In 1964, American engineers at the Ralph M Parsons Corporation drew up one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans in history, a scheme called the North American Water and Power Alliance, or Nawapa.
- The idea was to capture excess river water from Alaska and northwestern Canada and send it south through the Rocky Mountain Trench, across the Rockies, and into the water-starved plains and deserts of the United States and northern Mexico.
- It involved hundreds of dams, canals and tunnels, and was seriously discussed in the US Congress as a project comparable in scale to the space programme.
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- In 1964, American engineers at the Ralph M Parsons Corporation drew up one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans in history, a scheme called the North American Water and Power Alliance, or Nawapa.
- The idea was to capture excess river water from Alaska and northwestern Canada and send it south through the Rocky Mountain Trench, across the Rockies, and into the water-starved plains and deserts of the United States and northern Mexico.
- It involved hundreds of dams, canals and tunnels, and was seriously discussed in the US Congress as a project comparable in scale to the space programme.
Sources: Times of India