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>States surrounding the Great Lakes have a recurring nightmare about proposals to siphon off water for parched areas in U.S. or other countries. So they might be staggered by suggestions from NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti, who said a water pipeline from the lakes to cities like Phoenix was "part of our future.”
>Famiglietti, a hydrologist and senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was in Cleveland recently for a lecture. In the interview with Ideas, he said that "from a quantity perspective you might imagine that there’s a giant bullseye that can be seen from space that’s sitting above the Great Lakes. Meaning: It’s a target area in a sense for the rest of the country.
>"Because there’s so much fresh water, you can imagine that 50 years from now ... there might actually be a pipeline that brings water from the Great Lakes to Phoenix. I think that’s part of our future.” Famiglietti said such initiatives are needed to address a global water shortage.
>States surrounding the Great Lakes have jealously guarded the vast water resource. After all, the lakes hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water, and those states (and the government of Canada) realize the value in a world that is increasingly faced with shortages.
i mean all the really smart people have been saying for a decade now that water wars are gonna be what pushes civilization to the brink
Brody Brooks
My grandpaps was saying that for years
Jordan Ross
You can come and take it out of our cold dead hands. Minnesota may not have much coastline but I'll fight tooth and nail to protect it Yeah because Africans and Poos can't stop pumping out more babies than the shit pumping out of OP's mouth
James Campbell
It's not a matter of 'taking' anything; it's a matter of implementing a sensible water management plan for national prosperity. And you guys have the PRIVILEGE of having a key role in this process.
lake michigan us up 3 feet in a year come and take it.
Adrian Bennett
>It's not a matter of 'taking' anything Tell that to Foxconn.
Connor Moore
I'll dump as much garbage as I can into any pipeline I see. I'm talking batteries, feces, oil, paint thinner, cleaning agents, estrogen, embalming fluid, formaldehyde; you better come get this water Mad Max style if you want it.
Daniel Thomas
>California drains their aquifers to empty >land subsides tens of feet >aquifer requires 10,000 years to refill California: Hey those are some really nice lakes you got there...
Nolan Hughes
Daily reminder that the State of Michigan is the 8th largest standing army on the planet.
Robert Ortiz
Your idiotic desert dwelling ways are not the lakes problem. Try not being retarded 1st. Imagine moving to a desert, and then being shocked by the lack of water. Imagine being that thick headed.
I still cant believe faggy leafs sell milk in bags
Like what the fuck is up with that?
Cameron Baker
bagged milk is superior to cartons and jugs
Colton Morris
It really isnt
Jace Reyes
It uses less packaging and if used properly (don't let air into the bad) it takes longer to spoil.
Bentley Cook
kek. fpbp
Aiden Wilson
Fuck off moron you clowns arent ruining our lakes, you would turn our great lakes into the Aral sea or should I say Aral desert as it's called now
Isaac Smith
NYC takes more than enough of it already and they can fuck off, anyone who wants the water can fuck off. As a side note, that scientist and anyone else who thinks a water pipeline traveling from the Great Lakes to distant states is feasible, has no idea how expensive a pipeline that size would be.
Benjamin Price
Upstate New Yorker here Thank you based Canuck we will have to stand side by side to defend our rightful sips from desert dwelling southron scum
Gavin Smith
checkd yes it is, give it a try i honestly believe Trudeau may sell our side of the great lakes to fix the financial mess hes caused
Fuck off. Mismanage the Lakes and they’ll be gone. And the Lakes are Canada’s too (although that’s not saying much).
Carter Hill
filtration plant operator here.. it isnt possible to run an efficient pipeline through all those states first of all. also the manpower required to monitor pressure throughout that pipeline and the cost of fixing it would be ridiculous. also, what treatment facilities are going to be remodeled to treat and redistribute all that water? arizona doesnt just have one plant for the whole state.... fuck this guy. literal retard
Sebastian Cruz
You'll fight for your water the same way you fought the muslim invasion into your state?
They sell it in cartons and jugs here too, but bagged milk is clearly superior. Get on Canadas level eh?
Luke Bell
>drawing the line into Mexico Got a legitimate chuckle out of me, thanks
Jaxon Peterson
>NYC takes more than enough of it [citation needed] Water from the Great Lakes Watershed may only be used within the watershed with the sole exception of Cook County (Chicago), Illinois and for the manufacturing of beverages. >You can’t even just bottle the water for sale. Toledo (Mayor Carlton Finkbeiner, of just move the deaf people out by the airport fame) tried to get permission to bottle its tap water for interstate sale. Nope.
Josiah Hughes
Tucson here There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to tap into Great Lakes water with a giant pipeline. We need to bring more green to southern AZ. The Colorado is becoming an unreliable source. Give us our rightful water rights, now.
