The Water Plan That Almost Remade a Continent

In 1961, engineer Ralph Parsons proposed NAWAPA — 369 dams and canals to redirect every major river in North America. Congress held hearings. Canada almost agreed. Then the money, the politics, and the man all ran out.

A weekly counterfactual-product-history channel investigating one specific creative idea, scrapped proposal, killed standard, or rejected urban-planning project that ALMOST changed North American culture — and didn't.