text: Though clean water becomes increasingly scarce and its value as a commodity goes up, such grandiose water transport schemes won't be happening soon.  They just don't pencil out.  The entrepreneur's only hope (unless he has billions of bucks in his back pocket) is to suck up billions of our state or federal dollars.  Let's not let that happen.  We already have a large carcass pile of failed mega-projects, some of which are water related.