Water on their brains

The Council of Canadians -- acting on their bizarre water obsession -- wants to prevent any new water withdrawals from the Great Lakes. There's been a new agreement signed between the eight US states and two provinces that border the lakes to allow new small scale diversions. This is obviously just the first step in an environmental apocalypse:

"In the business of water, once you say maybe, you say yes," Pentland said in an interview from Ottawa.

The Council of Canadians, which will present at Toronto hearings hosted by the Council of the Great Lakes Governors, also wants to make its "vehement" opposition to the proposal known.

"The eight U.S. states are forming an agreement where they're going to sell Great Lakes water," said Sara Ehrhardt, water campaigner for the group.

"It's going to open the door for the sale of water on a large scale."

Oh no! Not selling a natural resource for money! How un-Canadian!

The fear is that the combined effects of climate change, consumption and new diversions could eventually drain the lakes.

"It's not alarmist," Pentland says.

No, no, of course not.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Saint Lawrence Seaway corporation has raised the allowable draft of ships due to an greatly elevated water level, and homeowners along Lake Ontario are worried about flooding. The trend is clear. We've got to stop conserving water and start selling it as fast as we can. Otherwise in a few years Toronto could suffer the same fate as Atlantis.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at September 20, 2004 08:14 PM | TrackBack