In light of other Great Lakes diversion issues, bottled water seems like a small threat to the lakes, and removal of that issue as a stumbling block is welcome.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/editorial/12899847.htm
Comment from Great Lakes sage in Michigan:
If we left it up to these editors, fifty years from now the waters of the
Great Lakes Basin would be a trickle, and the water's currency would end up
in a Swiss bank account.
It's not the amount of water in a bottle from the Great Lakes; it's the
amount of water commodified for all those who want to divert and sell it in
the future.
No legislature has recognized any private right to sell public water.
Compromise might work to resolve a dispute over the use of water in a
watershed, but it doesn't work for the right to sell public commons or
public trust like water out of a watershed.
If it did, all the users who depend on the water in the watershed would
ultimately suffer a net loss of use to the users at the other end of
pipeline for the the sale and diversion out of water out of a watershed --
bottles, jugs, trucks, tankers or ships.