Trump Called Canada's Water a "Very Large Faucet" for America. Canada Made Selling It Illegal.

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This summer, Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the two great reservoirs of the American Southwest — fell to their lowest combined level since 1957, in a basin living through the worst multi-decade drought in 1,200 years. The Colorado River supplies 40 million people and grows roughly 90% of America's winter vegetables, and the rules that govern it expire at the end of 2026 with seven states deadlocked. Meanwhile, Canada holds roughly 20% of all the fresh water on Earth. Donald Trump described it, on camera, as "essentially a very large faucet" that could be turned toward Los Angeles in one day. What he didn't mention: in the 1960s, the US Army Corps of Engineers drew up a real plan — NAWAPA — to reverse Canada's rivers into the Colorado, and Canada's eventual answer became federal law: bulk water exports are prohibited, in every province, backed by the eight US Great Lakes states and a 1909 treaty. In this video: the drying of the American Southwest, the megaproject history forgot, the "fauc

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