It was a proposal:

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

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.

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

Both ideas are equally as likely to be implemented.

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.