Reply #33: OK, I'll give up oranges. [View All]

Unfortunately, the pipeline idea doesn't seem impractical to everyone. The idea has been coming up for a while and there have been on-going efforts in the state and provinces (the water also belongs to Canada) around the Great Lakes to get an agreement signed that would require approval from each of those parties before Great Lakes water could be sold or diverted. The situation is quite urgent, IMO. There was already a scheme that was thwarted at the last minute, to sell water to China by the tanker-ful.

There is also the possibility that allowing non-Great Lakes states to take our water, would open the door to Mexico demanding a share because of NAFTA.

People have been moving to the California and the Southwest for decades for warm weather, without thinking about the ecological consequences and people migrating from the south aren't thinking about the environmental consequences either. I don't think those regions of the U.S. have an automatic right to destroy the fragile ecosystem of our region. We have the example of the thoughtless way rivers in the west have been dammed and diverted and the water wasted.

This is a serious problem that the arid southwest is going to have to solve without just grabbing someone else's water.

Don't get me started... :+

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