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Which of course means it will return as rain somewhere. I guess I don’t see what all the controversy is about.

• eesmith 9y ago
  It's a perceived lack of adherence to the Great Lakes Compact, which specifies how to manage the Great Lakes Basin's water supply. Regulation of water withdrawal appears to be important as otherwise I don't see why the states would have gone through the effort of putting the regulations into place.
  • maxerickson 9y ago
    Maintaining control over withdrawal is important. I'm not sure the people complaining care about characterizing the actual impact though, there's a branch of conservation that reflexively opposes almost everything. One of the Slashdot comments points out that billions of gallons can evaporate from the lake naturally in a day. Moving some of that to land near the lake seems like a low risk to me.
    • eesmith 9y ago
      "there's a branch of conservation that reflexively opposes almost everything." Sure. There's also a branch of business which says to screw the long-term environment health and environment consequences for short-term gains. That these exist doesn't mean that either viewpoint has relevancy for what's going on here.