...is really, as Jim Olson points out here, an issue of ownership. Does the public own the water or can the public's water be put in millions of bottles and sold for private profit without any public body authorizing such a sale? Unfortunately, the otherwise progressive new Great Lakes compact takes a pass on the issue.
When governors of the Great Lakes states endorsed a strategy for preventing water raids by covetous outsiders, some of the loudest cheers came from leaders of environmentalist groups.
But an attorney known for leading the fight against a water bottling operation in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula doesn't share their enthusiasm.
Posted by Dave at December 24, 2005 01:51 PM