The popular image of Texas cowboys building a pipe from Lake Michigan to the desert belies the fact that the greatest short term water export threats come from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio -- and Wisconsin, as the article below points out.
This is the "Trojan Horse" contained or sanctioned by the current draft of Annex 2001, the Great Lakes water export pact agreement. No near-Basin transfers should be allowed, period, except in a humanitarian emergency. Urban sprawl does not qualify.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/dec04/280334.asp
Posted by Dave at December 2, 2004 02:57 PM