The great siphoning: Drought-stricken areas eye the Great Lakes

[NeoGreen]

http://www.startribune.com/the-great-siphoning-drought-stricken-areas-eye-the-great-lakes/483743681/

The great siphoning: Drought-stricken areas eye the Great Lakes
"Water, water everywhere" is the egalitarian vision of those who don't have enough of it and would like to tap the Great Lakes to get it.
By Ron Way, May 25, 2018

Outside Two Harbors, Minn., on a cliff overlooking the broad expanse of Lake Superior, you are overwhelmed by grandeur — shimmering water, crashing waves, a down-bound ore boat on the horizon, miniaturized by distance.

As you fill your senses, you may be unaware of the invisible others behind you — 2,000 miles or so behind you, to the southwest — eyeing the Great Lakes in another spirit, coveting all that water.

Lake Superior is big, all right. It and the other Great Lakes contain one-fifth of the whole world’s fresh water and, get this, hold enough to submerge the continental U.S. under 10 feet.

Those far-off onlookers thirst mightily for the Lakes’ 6.5 million billion gallons of fresh water that, to them, just sits there before running off to the ocean. Wasted.

Other pertinent articles:
https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/are-great-lakes-under-threat-thirsty-southwestern-american-states.html
https://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/will-the-great-lakes-be-another-aral-sea.html
https://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/its-world-water-day-and-great-lakes-are-risk-thanks-proposed-epa-cutbacks.html
https://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/will-next-war-canada-be-fight-over-water.html
https://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/great-lakes-compact-selfishness-and-self-interest-in-wisconsin.html

[greymattermom]

1. How do they get it over the

Continental Divide in this plan.

[NeoGreen]

3. Pipes and pumps...

...it's easier than moving oil.

[greymattermom]

4. I think they do this in Colorado already

so will they put the water into the Colorado River to fill up the lakes? There are already systems to move it from there. I wonder what Canada would think about this idea.

[NickB79]

8. But the scale is an order of magnitude larger

The volume of water required for cities, much less agriculture or manufacturing, would dwarf current oil volume.

[riversedge]

2. @govWalker in WI will be only to happy to sell the water! damn

[Fullduplexxx]

5. This again. Here comes corporate america to raid your water supply

[Ohiogal]

6. Although I gather this has been talked about for some time

it seems that every frightening idea is fair game in our crazy world right now....

And, if climate change continues it's ugly agenda unfettered, the search for water out West is going to lead to some ideas that we here in Ohio won't like. Namely, draining our precious Great Lakes.

I'm sure Republican lawmakers in the GL region are probably rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the $ it might bring in.....

My husband is a regular fisherman on Lake Erie, and I can tell you the charters and the private boats won't be happy with this.

[shraby]

7. They've tried to take the water before but the consortium of Great Lakes states and Canada

have always refused to let it happen.

It's not just up to Walker. If that were the case, it would have been gone yesterday.

[NickB79]

9. I'd personally put a bullet through the damn thing

And I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one in the Midwest angry enough to do so.