Proposed Multi-Billion Dollar Lake Powell Pipeline Project

On This Green Earth , your hosts Nell Larson and Chris Cherniak talk with Eric Balken. Balken is the Executive Director of Glen Canyon Institute. He will be covering the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline. A multibillion dollar, 140- mile pipeline project that would pump up to 86,000 acre-feet of water annually out of the Colorado River and into southwest Utah. Why is the pipeline necessary? Who would pay for it? And, what impacts would such a pipeline have on those needing Colorado River water downstream.