Oklahoma State Representative Doug Cox admits his plan might be costly and some people might wonder about his lunacy. But he thinks eastern Oklahoma should share its wealth of water with western Oklahoma and do it by building a series of pipelines.
He offered his plan this week to the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legislative Conference in Oklahoma City.
The Republican legislator, whose district includes Grand Lake suggests using state rights of way to locate the pipelines and move water to small towns where water supplies are becoming critical. He even says the state could build a tank farm to store water, very similar to the Cushing oil tank farm which is the largest storage site of oil in the world.
In an interview with Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays, Cox says people laughed when the late Sen. Robert Kerr promoted the McClellan-Kerr navigation system to ship products from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico. But the navigation system became a reality.
Cox believes the biggest roadblock will be the Native American tribes who have water rights in eastern Oklahoma.
Listen to the Ron Hays interview.
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