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The US House voted overwhelmingly in favor (390-25) of approving the Great Lakes Compact. This Compact is an agreement between eight States and two Canadian Provinces that effectively ends the mass shipping of water from the Great Lakes to other areas of the Nation(s) and World. Considering that the Great Lakes hold about 20% of the world's fresh water and the maxim that "future wars will be fought over water" this is an important win for each of the Great Lake States and Provinces. This compact all but eliminates the possibility that insatiable states such as California (and increasingly Tennessee and Georgia) can take water from us in the event of drought, or more commonly, wasteful use, poor water management, and inefficient water storage/transport methods.
This bill passed in the US Senate back in August, and surprisingly, President Bush has agreed to sign it. The four years of hard work among the legislative and executive branches of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec were well spent, and will, I believe, pay huge dividends in the decades to come!
DispatchPolitics : U.S. House approves Great Lakes compact Columbus Dispatch Politics
The US House voted overwhelmingly in favor (390-25) of approving the Great Lakes Compact. This Compact is an agreement between eight States and two Canadian Provinces that effectively ends the mass shipping of water from the Great Lakes to other areas of the Nation(s) and World. Considering that the Great Lakes hold about 20% of the world's fresh water and the maxim that "future wars will be fought over water" this is an important win for each of the Great Lake States and Provinces. This compact all but eliminates the possibility that insatiable states such as California (and increasingly Tennessee and Georgia) can take water from us in the event of drought, or more commonly, wasteful use, poor water management, and inefficient water storage/transport methods.
This bill passed in the US Senate back in August, and surprisingly, President Bush has agreed to sign it. The four years of hard work among the legislative and executive branches of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec were well spent, and will, I believe, pay huge dividends in the decades to come!
DispatchPolitics : U.S. House approves Great Lakes compact Columbus Dispatch Politics
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