In 1982, the Army Corps of Engineers released a study of what, even then, seemed like a wacky idea — take billions of gallons of water from the Missouri River each year and pump it hundreds of miles to parched farms across central and western Kansas.
The project would start at White Cloud Lake, an imagined 13,000-acre reservoir to be built near the Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska border. From there, the corps suggested two paths for a series of canals, pipes and pumps that would snake Missouri River water into Kansas.
Water, water everywhere but where it’s wanted - KansasCity.com
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