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The US and Canada share the largest bodies of fresh water in the world (the Great Lakes). That's a pretty strategic reserve.

• maxerickson 12y ago
  It's also the case that if you have the excess energy to generate fresh water to store for later you probably have less need to store energy and water for later. I hope it doesn't particularly need to happen, but it will be interesting to see the water rights for the Great Lakes play out over time. Current law is pretty solid about not removing water from the watershed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
• logfromblammo 12y ago
  The Ogallala aquifer is approximately equal in water storage capacity to Lake Huron, but has 7 times more area and more arable surface land is within 500 m from it. The downside is that it cannot be used to transport goods using container ships. But it is being depleted more than six times as fast as it is being recharged. If anything qualifies as a strategic water reserve, that's it right there. What else would you call a gigantic underground lake underlying a huge number of farms that can all tap into it directly?
• AnimalMuppet 12y ago
  Minor nit: I believe that Lake Baikal is bigger than all the Great Lakes put together, at least in terms of water volume. If not, it's very close.
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