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North American Water and Power Alliance
The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA, also referred to as NAWAPTA from proposed governing body the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) is a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The planners envisioned diverting water from some rivers in Alaska south through Canada via the Rocky Mountain Trench and other routes to the US and would involve 369 separate construction projects. The water would enter the US in northern Montana. There it would be diverted to the headwaters of rivers such as the Colorado River and the Yellowstone River. Implementation of NAWAPA has not been seriously considered since the 1970s, due to the array of environmental, economic and diplomatic issues raised by the proposal.〔〔 Western historian William deBuys wrote that "NAWAPA died a victim of its own grandiosity."〔
==The plan==
A technical and economic blueprint for the plan was developed in 1964 by the Parsons Corporation of Pasadena, California.〔(Captured Rain: America's Thirst for Canadian Water ), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000〕 The total cost was estimated in 1975 as $100 billion, comparable in cost to the Interstate Highway System.〔Barr, L. (1975). NAWAPA: A Continental Water Development Scheme for North America? ''Geography 60''(2), pp.111-119.〕〔Nelson, J.G. and Chambers, M.J., ''Water'', Methuen Publications 1969, p.375〕
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