On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:32:30 -0600, in sci.space.history OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote:

...And that only came about because ABC was getting hundreds of
letters a week demanding they follow up on that iceberg bit. Right
about that time, the State of California was seriously considering
some proposals to use 747 engines to move an iceberg from one of the
arctic regions to the California coast, where it could be broken up
and shipped to drought-stricken regions. The last word I heard on this
one was that while getting the 'berg to the coast wasn't that
expensive, what killed the idea was a) where to actually beach the
damned thing, and b) the cost of transporting the ice to where it was
needed would have been far more expensive than originally estimated.

Check out "Texas on the Rocks" by Daniel da Cruz.