Amid rising water supply crises, could the parched American Southwest ever get its hands on the world's most abundant and valuable liquid fresh water supply — our Great Lakes?
...California isn't asking for Great Lakes water.No Southwest state is.
But if the drought worsens, and population growth continues to soar there, desperate times could someday call for desperate measures.
Don't think the idea of a raid on Great Lakes water is that far-fetched.
Plans were in the works to allow a Canadian company to sell Lake Superior water to Asia via tanker ships as recently as 1998.
A coal company in 1981 wanted to pipe Superior water to Wyoming to move its semi-liquefied product back to the Midwest.
And in 1982, Congress mandated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study the feasibility of using Great Lakes water to replenish supplies needed for the heavily agricultural Plains states. (It wasn't feasible.)
Plans were in the works to allow a Canadian company to sell Lake Superior water to Asia via tanker ships as recently as 1998.
A coal company in 1981 wanted to pipe Superior water to Wyoming to move its semi-liquefied product back to the Midwest.
And in 1982, Congress mandated that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study the feasibility of using Great Lakes water to replenish supplies needed for the heavily agricultural Plains states. (It wasn't feasible.)
Who owns the water?...
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