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Yes, we prize out fresh waters highly. Not only are the International , but every state that boarders the lakes have a signed PAC not to sell our warmer to anyone ! Should such happen , there would be all out war, and I mean physical .....water rights have caused many a fight/war out west. The long term drought in the SW is serious. Already there are many farmers that are ****ting down, they can not hang on one more !
Some states won't let folks collect rainwater to use. Nor can some folks use water from streams across their property unless they have "water rights". It's a very foreign concept to us here on the Big Island where we measure our rainfall in feet instead of inches.
On Oahu, however, they have overbuilt their water table since the 1970's or so. The way I understand it, at some point, their water table will go below sea level and then seawater will rush into the underground water reservoir and they will end up with brackish water. They've also covered too much of their watershed area with concrete and direct the fresh water into the ocean instead of the underground reservoirs so that doesn't help them replenish, either. That is just one of the reasons why we moved off that island and over to one with ample fresh water.
Sounds like the big island is in trouble for fresh drinking water hotzcatz. That is not good and once the aquifer is contaminated it might not ever go back to being fresh water again.
Messing with mother nature seems to backfire on us at times. I hope that the Everglades restoration project in FLorida gets completed before it is too late as well. Past practice was drain swamp, make canals, use fill to build on. Run canals across the state into the Ocean. Now they are trying to break the dikes and let the natural river of grass work as it is supposed to.
I don't have an answer for the great lakes. Other than something is going on, on a very large scale, and hopefully whatever it is stops or reverses.
Just like oil the extractors will always go the cheap route, if they can. When the west coast is cut off till the last drop of H20 THEN they start looking once again will for reverse osmosis
Water fights are local or regional. Oil is a global business. Apples and oranges,
Yes, got oil in the Middle East and we don't need or want it. Water on the other hand , water we need to survive and that's everywhere. There is nothing local about the need, want, for water, fresh water. California is getting it's water from over 1000 miles away, in part, .....they can't live without it, nothing local about that. The fight for water is thousands of years old, long before anyone wanted anything to do with oil.
If there is a future war over water it will be because those in charge manufacture said war. As mentioned desalinization is becoming more efficient. There is water all over this planet, it just needs to have the salt removed, salt which is also an economic resource....
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