Posted on 02/24/2013 10:01:21 PM PST by chessplayer
Barack Obama is keeping his promise to lower the sea levels, and he’s starting with the drought plagued Midwest where Lake Michigan water is being shipped by the boat loads over to China! By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit. By draining the precious jewel of the Great Lakes in the middle of America, our federal water managers are allowing the export of our water out of our country across thousands of miles of oceans into the Asian basin plagued by huge population centers who are suffering from their constant lack of fresh water. How’s that for cutting America down to size?
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Seriously...
The Chinese will piss that water into their sewage systems, where it will eventually find its way back into the natural environment, where it will evaporate, then turn to clouds which blow into the Pacific, then fall as rain over North America - thus finding its way back home again.
This is much ado about nothing, methinks.
So where are the eco-socialists? Oh that’s right, they want us to be just like china.
Sounds like Nestle is actually ripping off the Chinese.
If thats the way it works, why are water levels still plummeting? Lake Michigan levels are over two feet lower than long term average.
So is this saying that Nestlé water is coming from Lake Michigan?
Water levels have been in a downward spiral since the 1990’s. The water isn’t being replenished.
I’m having a hard time imagining that there’s any possibility of transporting sufficient quantities of water by ship to affect the Great Lakes to any noticeable extent.
This has to be a joke. Who’d drink Great Lake water? Here in Alaska, we have unreal amounts of fresh glacial water running to the sea to become salty. Chinese need to come to Ak for water if they need it; we’ll sell it cheap too.
this is not important.
the article says nestle can sell 250,000 gallons a day as bottled water.
at that rate it would take 14,000 years to empty the lake (assuming no net additions or deletions of current water).
By then, there is a good chance the Ice sheets will have returned covering the entire area.
Lake Erie is only 4,000 years old and has a depth of only 62 feet (average). The bottom of erie is rising too.
The Great Lakes as we know them are a wonderful if temporary resource.
Seriously...
The Chinese will piss that water into their sewage systems, where it will eventually find its way back into the natural environment, where it will evaporate, then turn to clouds which blow into the Pacific, then fall as rain over North America - thus finding its way back home again.
This is much ado about nothing, methinks.
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Some of it will fall as snow on the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona and the indigs will be enraged at the Chinese too.....HO Ho ho....
Ha! And they are going to get the zebra mussels too!
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Bull Squat......its going to different
places......its still on the planet. Back to school time.
Globalization. The great idol of those whose worship of trade and the marketplace overrules every other interest.
I heard about another scheme where believe it or not, the Canadians are actually stealing America’s water right out of Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron!
Send the Asian carp over there too.
Of even more dire consequences, it has been noted in some fringe scientific journals that air that you and I and every other American breaths and depends on each and every day for our mere existence is being exported from America by a space age jet stream!
It seams this jet stream exports America air from the United States and delivers it all the way to Europe and even Russia!
And the Europeans and the Russians don’t pay us a penny for our air.
There are some things that should be ‘let go’....and this is one of them. Nestle can’t possibly have a meaningful impact on the lake by bottling water out of it.
Yes, the level of the lake has gone down. The reason is that we have not had enough storms that come in from the south. This is an entirely different problem and one that humans can do little about.
That amounts to 0.77 acre-feet/day, maximum.
By contrast, the Saint Clair River, flowing out of Lake Huron, thus draining Lake Michigan in the process, averages 4.25 acre-feet per second; over 15,000 times as much water per day.
Putting it another way, Lake Michigan contains 1,180 cu mi of water, and 1 cubic mile = 3 379 200 acre feet, or 4.3 million times the amount Nestle can suck out. And that doesn't include what's in Lake Huron, essentially a part of Lake Michigan.
Rather than worrying about where the water is going, ask where is the money flowing.
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