A businessman hailing out of the United Emirates wants to tug an iceberg from Antarctica to provide freshwater.
Source: UAE Businessman Has a Way to Get Freshwater to the Middle East: Tug an Iceberg
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Dean Koontz has a novel, Icebound, which was published in 1994, but I’m sure I remember something much earlier than that–possibly from the large-format Analog.
I have vague recollections of a cover
I seem to think it was Frank Herbert. I could be wrong, though. Rick Raphael might have written a short story. Maybe. Long shot.