Water as a Commodity; Disaster Planning in the United States

The Colorado River is critical for life in the SouthMid West and South Western Droughts, we will
Western United States and even Southern CA,need to plan for contingencies either way. We
without that water flow much of our civilization asmight also discuss the Billionaire water rights
we know it could not exist without resorting toholders, who are busy buying up those rights for
extreme hardship. Or could we? Is there are waythe future, when water becomes the most
to deliver water by rail and truck to the our moreprecious commodity.
densely populated areas in the event of a majorHow would we get the water to the cities by
disruption from an Earthquake or Internationaltruck, it would take a major distribution plan and it
Terrorism?would have to be implemented perfectly to
Could a company buy up all the used tankerprevent chaos in the streets. Consider moving the
trucks line them with plastic or a glass coating andwater by land transportation using the Ancient Silk
use them to haul water? Could a company getRoad Theory of distribution and create a series of
contracts to take over water, liquid and old fuelpotential routes along a system, with many
tanker trailers for conversion and have theseredundancies to prevent any disruption. The
contracts in place prior in case they weretrucks will move along the routes open to deliver
needed? In case the western cities run out ofthe water.
water, which is looking that way from our last big