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trollbridgeyesterday at 7:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

Those of us by the Great Lakes would prefer that our water not get sold to other places, thanks.


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phil21yesterday at 7:51 PM

Not all of us. I'm totally fine with water pipelines in exchange for long distance transmission lines for solar power and other such infrastructure like gas pipelines from areas that produce stuff we do not.

Export an abundant resource for a scarcer one seems win/win to me. Kind of the point of interstate commerce.

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robhltyesterday at 10:19 PM

Thankfully the Great Lakes Compact prohibits water from being diverted outside the great lakes drainage basin, with very limited exceptions.

https://www.glslcompactcouncil.org/program-areas/water-diver...

tempaccount5050yesterday at 7:58 PM

Why? We have 27 quadrillion gallons in lake michigan alone. You could pump millions of gallons a day out and if it just stopped raining it would take 3 million years to drain it. Stop listening to Charlie Berens.

tt24yesterday at 7:58 PM

Sorry but that isn’t your water. Do you own the Great Lakes?

The Great Lakes are part of the United States and Canada. If the United States or Canada would like to repurpose the water within them for some better use then that sucks for you

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