North American Water and Power Alliance
""NAWAPA is cited by name by Haz Al-Din — paired with JFK, FDR, the CCC, and the World Land Bridge — as the kind of project America no longer builds.
From the streams
INFRARED SHOWDOWN: HIGHLIGHTS / full VOD 2021-12-03:
> "We no longer have projects like we did with JFK and FDR — like NAWAPA and the CCC — for our youth to be hopeful for and for our communities to be uplifted by."
Context
The citation comes in a discussion of a school shooting: the relevant crime, Haz argues, is not the parents or the boy but "the people who have been running this country and denying everyone in Michigan and the United States a future to believe in." Mass despair is the product of a society without development projects; NAWAPA stands for the lost tradition of continental engineering that gave youth a mission (World Land Bridge, New Deal).