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To: staytrue; chessplayer
the article says nestle can sell 250,000 gallons a day as bottled water.

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.

20 posted on 02/24/2013 11:18:09 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch; chessplayer

While it is troublesome that 250,000 of American water Lake Michigan is being exported to China, I read about the nation of Evaporation is taking more than 20 Billion gallons of American water per day from Lake Michigan.


22 posted on 02/24/2013 11:40:40 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: ApplegateRanch
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.

If you convert these figures to cubic kilometers, you can easily compare this to the figures given in Wiki or UN data around the World for water behind large dams. The lake of fresh water poured into the oceans via rivers is made up for by rain over the oceans and water temps melting ice at the poles. The weight alone could be changing the spin and tilting of the Earth.

40 posted on 02/25/2013 5:02:54 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: ApplegateRanch
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.

If you convert these figures to cubic kilometers, you can easily compare this to the figures given in Wiki or UN data around the World for water behind large dams. The (lack)of fresh water poured into the oceans via rivers is made up for by rain over the oceans and water temps melting ice at the poles. The weight alone could be changing the spin and tilting of the Earth.

41 posted on 02/25/2013 5:04:06 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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