photo credit: TrekNews.Net(KMJ) Star Trek star William Shatner has battled interstellar bad guys on t.v. Now, the 84 year old actor is pointing his ray gun at California’s devastating drought.
Shatner says he’s launching a Kickstarter to raise $30 billion for a water pipeline from Seattle to Lake Mead in Nevada, which feeds water to Arizona, Nevada and California.
“California’s in the midst of a 4-year-old drought. They tell us there’s a year’s supply of water left. If it doesn’t rain next year, what do 20 million people in the breadbasket of the world do?” Shatner told Yahoo! Tech’s David Pogue.
His proposal involves a 4-feet, above-ground pipeline that would run alongside Interstate 5 from Seattle to Nevada.
“They did it in Alaska — why can’t they do it along Highway 5? This whole area’s about to go under,” said Shatner.
Ironically, Washington State is also in the midst of a dry spell. The average snowpack is well below normal and Gov. Jay Inslee has issued an emergency drought declaration.
Snowmelt runoff for the summer of 2015 is projected to be the lowest on record in more than 60 years.
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