Posted on 12/09/2013 8:49:41 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Shocking statistics surfacing about record busting, low water levels in America’s Great Lakes make no mention of the sale of fresh water supplies by private companies to China, or of President Obama’s executive order and the legal loophole which is allowing these sales. “Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels EVER RECORDED” the US Army Corps of Engineers reported early this year. (1)
Corps measurements taken in January of 2013 “show Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have reached their lowest ebb since record keeping began in 1918.” The chief watershed hydrology expert warns Americans, “We’re in an extreme situation.” Keith Kompoltowicz heads up the corps district office in Detroit as hand wringing, citizen angst, and shippers’ economic losses pile up.
“Plunging water levels are beyond anyone’s control,” says another expert, James Weakley.(2) But in one of CiR’s most popular posts, last year we warned, “Lake Michigan water is being shipped by boat loads over to China! By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing...
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Shipping boat loads of water? Is this some sort of joke? It’s not a satire site. Or is it?
Arent those two lakes polluted?
B.S. The Canadians would never allow it.
And:
Lake Superior water levels on the rise
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/11/20/environment/lake-superior-water-levels
Shipping enough boat loads of water to China to affect the water levels of the Great Lakes? That sounds pretty far fetched.
Glad to see the Feds getting out of the way of business.
Libertarians should be celebrating. In a few years they will be able to make toasts with pure American water which will then be more expensive than French champagne.
We had a serious drought last year which brings the levels down. This year we had excess rain which will bring the levels back to normal by spring.
On a barge down the Mississippi? Then through the Panama Canal?
There are more than a couple important facts missing from this "story."
LOL!! Go out to the middle of any of the lakes and then picture an oil tanker filled with water making the journey to China.
Talk about a sparrow fart in a hurricane!
You lose more in one hour of evaporation off the five lakes than you could ever ship by tanker.
The city of Waukesha, a couple of miles from Lake Michigan, wanted to pump drinking water out of it. Nope. Not in the Great Lakes watershed so not allowed.
If you can’t “export” water to Waukesha no way in heck could you export it to China.
http://www.wfs.org/blogs/len-rosen/water-and-waukesha-wisconsin-symptom-and-freshwater-challenge
“Shipping enough boat loads of water to China to affect the water levels of the Great Lakes? That sounds pretty far fetched.”
They dehydrate it first so each ship can carry more.
And you can even store dehydrated water in empty milk bottles and save it for an emergencies when regular supplies might be disrupted.
Hoax, or hype? What do you hear up there?
Sounds like a business plan for a Nigerian prince.
If the ChiComs want to import a bunch of sea lampreys, zebra mussels and invasive fish species, I say let ‘em.
Actually the real issue is with the sale of groundwater. Its unclear how much it affects the lakes if any. My biggest issue with the water bottlers is their lobbying to charge or control the rest of us with crap like well inspections.
I’m trying to think of the label for ‘Great Lakes Water’ - by Nestle.
- Less fecal matter than a politician
- Fortified with Iron (Ore)
- Builds strong (zebra) muscles
I actually camped next to the great lakes once, and the water was drawn out of the lake at great depth (was freezing cold even during the summer). It was fine water...but I don’t really think Nestle can market it.
Mostly hoax would be my bet. We Great lake staters would go ballistic over the sale of the great lakes.
What water is being sold is pumped out of the ground and that’s a sore spot as it is.
Myth 2: Water from the Great Lakes is secretly being shipped to China. In a comment that was removed from this post due to other offensive language, someone wrote: THE CHINESE ARE TAKING OUR WATER AND LEAVING US WITH THE [TOILET] WATER!! TANKERS WITH OUR FRESH WATER IN HUGE BLADDER-LIKE TANKS TO PUT INTO THEIR [AQUIFERS] THAT THEY HAVE ABUSED AND ARE NOW DRIED UP!! Perhaps this is better categorized as a conspiracy theory. Its origins go back to concerns raised when opening the Great Lakes to international shipping in the 1950s. The myth is perpetuated today in the blogosphere and sometimes includes the detail that bladder tanks are being used to transport the water in the holds of ships bound for China. All ships entering and leaving the Great Lakes must pass through the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System, where shipping traffic and cargo loads are closely monitored as ships pass through the lock system. In 2012, the Seaway Corporation logged 1,491 downbound transits through the Lake Ontario-Montreal section with a total cargo load of 18.9 million metric tons. According to the Seaway Corporation, traffic headed out the St. Lawrence River in 2012 carried 17,760 metric tons on average. If water was secretly being shipped, these sea-going freighters would need to be converted over from carrying dry cargo such as grain, coal, and iron ore to be able to carry liquids such as water. Using the example from Lake Superior, even if each ship could carry 2.5 million gallons of water in bladder tanks, it would take more than 10,000 ships a day leaving Lake Superior to equal the amount of water lost to evaporation in one day. This would create quite a traffic jam at the Soo Locks!
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/20/where-did-the-water-go-busting-5-myths-about-water-levels-on-the-great-lakes/
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