>Is there some sort of regional paranoia that the rest of the country is coming for "your water"? Yes, very much so. So much, in fact, that there's a multinati

>Is there some sort of regional paranoia that the rest of the country is coming for "your water"? Yes, very much so. So much, in fact, that there's a multinational treaty that says water in the Great Lakes cannot leave the Great Lakes watershed. It contains 90 percent of North America's freshwater. If other places start coming for water from outside, there's really nowhere else to look. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact