How one man plans to make billions selling Mojave desert water
by Rupert Neate in Los Angeles from on (#ZFYS)
Scott Slater wants to pump billions of gallons to LA and other drought-hit cities - and make $2.4bn in the process
Scott Slater has a plan. It is not a popular plan, but he wants to pump 814bn gallons of water from under the Mojave desert to Los Angeles and other drought-stricken communities in southern California, and make more than $2bn (1.3bn) doing so.
"Yes, it's quite a lot of money," Slater, the 57-year-old chief executive of Cadiz Inc, says as he stands in front of a scale model of the project in the foyer of the company's office on the 28th and top floor of a LA city centre office block. "It's worth whatever the community who wants the water is willing to pay for it to meet their demands."
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