Word: klamath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near Los Angeles the Klamath water can replace 300,000 acre-feet now drawn from the Owens Valley. Then the Owens water can be turned into the flat and potentially fertile Mojave Desert. The biggest exchange will be with the Colorado, for Klamath water can replace one million acre-feet of Colorado water now consumed by Los Angeles, and this could be used in Arizona. Part of it might be diverted from a Colorado tributary, the San Juan, and turned into the Rio Grande watershed for desperately water-short New Mexico. It might be exported to eastern Colorado...
Three water exchanges will spread the benefit of the Klamath water. About 100,000 acre-feet of it can take care of farmers with claims on the American River. Then some of the American's upper tributaries can be used for irrigation in bone-dry Nevada...
...always draw on the water of the northern rain country, while Arizona's future growth must come from the Colorado. The report itself pays no attention to political bickering. With scientific detachment, it estimates what the new tools of irrigation engineering could do with (as a starter) the Klamath River, which rises in Oregon and enters the Pacific just south of California's northern boundary...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...
Defense for 20 Days. The Klamath has been studied in detail; its total cost would be $3¼ billion, less than the defense cost of 20 days of the cold war as it is planned for 1952. In return, the U.S. would get at least 2,000,000 acres of new land, as productive agriculturally as a middle-sized state...