Turmoil Over Great Lakes Water Pact

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/apr/07/040701505.html

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The governors of the eight Great Lakes states worked for four years to write a plan that would protect their abundant water from being piped south to regions where booming populations face dwindling water supplies.

But the sharpest attacks on the proposed regional compact are coming not from the distant Sun Belt but from within the Great Lakes states themselves as the plan is submitted to legislators for ratification.

Some communities in the eight states say the compact's strict limits on water diversion could leave them high and dry. Critics fear a torrent of lawsuits.

And supporters say the whole deal could unravel over an Ohio lawmaker's concerns about private property rights and insistence on rewriting provisions.

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[madrchsod]

1. opps --ap article

somehow they forgot to mention canada is in on this water pact..

[Dr.Phool]

2. They'll only divert American water.

They won't touch any on the Canadian side.

[madrchsod]

3. the Canadian water is blue...

[JohnWxy]

4. I would think the toughest party to sell this agreement to is Canada. Half that water is theirs.

Canada can probably trump any one state involved in this agreement.