It's only a matter of time before somebody besides the bottled water industry covets the Great Lakes.
SALT LAKE CITY — Dozens of people from western Utah and Nevada protested at the federal building here against a proposal to take groundwater from their remote desert region and send it to thirsty, growing Las Vegas.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8497
"Today the economics are not there to say we're going to take all the water in the Great Lakes and ship it to Phoenix and Vegas," said Todd Ambs, the water division director of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. "But water's not getting cheaper. Twenty-five, 30, 40 years from now, the economics are going to be different. We've got to have a system in place to deal with that."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/national/12water.html?th&emc=th
Posted by Dave at August 12, 2005 09:59 AM