The Great Lakes have 18 percent of the world's available surface freshwater.
It takes 170 years for a molecule of water to traverse Lake Superior.
Only 1% of the volume of the Great Lakes is renewed annually by rainfall and snowmelt.
"Legal experts" have convinced many insiders, wrongly, that it is unconstitutional to limit or ban trade in Great Lakes Basin water.
Water scarcity will affect more than 3 billion people in the world by 2025.
These huge lakes are more fragile than they seem -- and in 2005 and beyond, it's up to the people of the Great Lakes Basin to protect them from exports, pollution, invasive species, and corporations and the politicians they control.
Posted by Dave at December 26, 2004 11:00 AM