Justin Fox, Columnist

William Shatner's California Pipe Dream

Sending Washington's water to California is DOA.

April 27, 2015 at 6:45 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

California's Central Valley...parched.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty Images

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William Shatner made an interesting suggestion last week for saving California from drying up and withering away. It isn’t an original suggestion. It also isn’t plausible. But it’s fun to think about.

Speaking to Yahoo’s David Pogue, the former Captain Kirk said: