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Boat docks sit empty on dry land, as Folsom Lake reservoir near Sacramento stands at only 18% capacity, as the severe drought continues in California on Sept. 17, 2015. (Photo: Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images) 
  
 A proposal to ship 9 billion of gallons of water a year from Alaska to drought-plagued California caught the eye of U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., who calls it "an idea worth exploring." 
  
 After reading about the concept in USA TODAY in August, Hahn said she arranged an exploratory meeting last week with Alaska Bulk Water CEO Terry Trapp, several California water officials and representatives from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. 
  
 California's drought is now in its fourth year and encompasses 97% of the state, leading to water shortages and wildfires. 
  
 Trapp said his plan would bring water by tanker ships from Blue Lake in Sitka, where his company has rights to up to 9 billion gallons per year of what he described as "some of the most pure water on Earth." 
  
 Hahn admitted to "sticker shock" when she saw Trapp's proposed price: 6 cents per gallon, compared to the 1/2-cent per gallon that water now costs in California. "It seems a little expensive at this point," she said in a phone interview with USA TODAY. 
  
 At that price, the Alaska water would cost California $540 million a year. 
  
 Plus, there's the cost to build needed infrastructure at California's ports to offload and store the water, she said. 
  
 U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., said she arranged an exploratory meeting on a proposal to ship 9 billion of gallons of water a year from Alaska to drought-plagued California. (Photo: Bill Clark, CQ-Roll Call) 
  
 The 9 billion gallons supplied annually would be "only a drop in the bucket," enough for only about 70,000 of California's 12 million families, Hahn said. Another plan would bring in water for specific locations, such as the 4,000 residents of Catalina Island, she said. 
  
 “There’s a lot of enthusiasm, but there’s also clearly a lot of work,” Trapp told the Daily Breeze newspaper after the meeting. Trapp's company already has a contract to ship 300 million gallons a year to Mexico. 
  
 Asked if the plan is too far-fetched, Hahn responded: "Residents of California want their decision-makers to explore ideas." 
  
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1RIvXGz ||||| U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro, discusses a proposal to ship Alaskan lake water to California with Port of Los Angeles executives on Monday. Photo by Lara Larramendi 
  
 California needs water. 
  
 Blue Lake in Sitka, Alaska, has a lot. 
  
 So a company that holds the rights to up to 9 billion gallons of the lake’s water is pitching an idea that would send some of it — via tanker ship — to the Golden State as it endures the fourth year of severe drought. 
  
 On Monday, U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-San Pedro — who was intrigued by the idea when she first saw an article about it last month — gathered representatives from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and several area water districts to vet the possibilities. 
  
 Terry Trapp, CEO of Alaska Bulk Water, was among those on hand to answer questions. 
  
 “There’s a lot of enthusiasm but there’s also clearly a lot of work,” Trapp said after the meeting. 
  
 Bottom line: Don’t stop rationing your water just yet. 
  
 “Nobody signed up for it,” Hahn said after the meeting. “But it’s a very interesting concept. ... I think it was an opportunity to think outside the box and it’s a concept that could work for smaller water districts in California.” 
  
 The congresswoman, who is preparing to run for what will be an open seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors next year, suggested Catalina Island, however, might be an area that could make use of such a plan. 
  
 Sitka gets about 100 inches of rain every year and the lake water is continually replenished. 
  
 “The discussion centers around the possibility of how to discharge the water either directly into the different municipal water systems or into private tanks that we’d have to construct at the ports,” Trapp said. “We’re considering a lot of this as conceptual at this point with a lot of details to be worked out. But those who attended the meeting were very receptive to helping us come up with some solutions.” 
  
 While “nobody said it wasn’t going to work,” Hahn said, shipping water from Alaska to Southern California does pose challenges. The infrastructure — pipelines and storage facilities, for example — would have to be built at the ports. 
  
 And the water would be expensive, more expensive than the water purchased now from water districts. 
  
 The lake water, which Hahn described as “probably purer than any of the water we have,” would strictly be drinking water, not something that could or should be used for irrigation, although Trapp said that wouldn’t necessarily be the case. 
  
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 “It’s water,” he said. 
  
 Making the transfer of water economically feasible is the sticking point. 
  
 But moving forward, Hahn said, the concept of shipping water either by ship or pipeline could become a “piece of the whole water puzzle,” especially for smaller water districts. 
  
 Among those attending Monday’s meeting were representatives of the Metropolitan Water District, Central Basin Water District, and West Basin Water District. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was unable to send a representative. 
  
 Hospitals could be another likely customer, the congresswoman said. 
  
 Alaska Bulk Water has a contract to sell 300 million gallons of water to Mexico, Hahn said, but otherwise is in the exploratory stage of testing the market. 
  
 The idea isn’t new. 
  
 Hahn said her father, Kenneth Hahn, when he was still serving on the Board of Supervisors in the 1980s, talked about developing a water pipeline from Alaska to California, but it never was built. 
  
 The state’s unrelenting drought has inspired many ideas as California looks forward to better prepare for dry cycles in the future. 
  
 “I think everyone was pleased to hear the concept,” she said. “Long term, it might fit into an overall water use plan.” 
  
 “We constitute a part of the solution,” Trapp said. ||||| Despite the stereotypical image that most people in the country have about the far, upper left hand corner of the United States, it doesn’t always rain there. In fact, New York City gets more total rainfall than Seattle. The difference is that Seattle rain is generally more of a mist that stretches the cloudy days out over weeks and, sometimes, months, which is why the city is a great place for cozy coffee shops, movie theaters and public libraries — anywhere to escape the soggy gray. It may or may not be true that the weather inspires more suicides, but it certainly is the reason that Northwesterners all dress like mountain climbers, even if they are headed to the opera. ||||| Sitka-based water wholesaler Alaska Bulk Water is getting attention from drought-stricken California. 
  
 On Oct. 5, U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., gathered representatives from southern California ports, water districts and Terry Trapp, CEO of Alaska Bulk Water, to judge the feasibility of shipping water from Sitka to southern California. 
  
 Hahn told the Daily Breeze newspaper, which covered the meeting, that “Nobody signed up for it, but it’s a very interesting concept. ... I think it was an opportunity to think outside the box and it’s a concept that could work for smaller water districts in California.” 
  
 California lacks the port facilities for accepting water from Sitka, and the cost of the idea makes it unlikely. Sitka water delivered to California is estimated to cost 6 cents per gallon. The current cost of water in most of southern California’s urban areas is about a half-cent per gallon. 
  
 In the 1980s and early 1990s, Alaska Gov. Wally Hickel proposed a plastic undersea pipeline to deliver vast quantities of fresh water from Alaska to California. 
  
 The idea, which was deemed financially unfeasible, was widely ridiculed. Today, 97 percent of California is in deep drought. 
  
 Alaska Bulk Water, which already has a contract to deliver water from Sitka’s Blue Lake to Mexico, expects to use tanker ships, cargo ships, barges or water-filled plastic bags towed behind seagoing ships to deliver its product. |||||
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Apparently taking a cue from Captain James. T. Kirk himself, one California politician is looking into the possibility of shipping 9 billion gallons of water from Alaska to the increasingly dry state, USA Today reports. Rep. Janice Hahn held an exploratory meeting last week with Terry Trapp, the CEO of Alaska Bulk Water. Trapp's company has water rights to Blue Lake in Sitka, Alaska, and he wants to use tanker ships to get that water to California, which is in the fourth year of a serious drought. The Daily Breeze reports Trapp believes his company is part of the solution, though Hahn isn't quite so sold. "I think it was an opportunity to think outside the box," she said following the meeting. The major hurdle is cost. USA Today reports Trapp wants 6 cents per gallon—or 12 times what California currently pays for its water. That brings the total to $540 million per year for enough water for only 70,000 of California's 12 million families. If that seems a little steep, Hahn agrees, even with Trapp upselling his product as "some of the most pure water on Earth." According to the Breeze, this is a family passion for Hahn, whose father talked about a water pipeline from Alaska when he was in California politics in the 1980s. He wasn't alone. The Juneau Empire reports former Alaska governor Wally Hickel proposed such a pipeline around the same time, though his plan was "widely ridiculed."