Great Lakes face increasing pressure for water
The Colossal Lakes hold six quadrillion gallons of shower. That’s 20 percent of the world’s fresh covering water. As scarcity grows, there’s concern more and more people are eying that profligately -- it's been likened to death by a thousand straws.
"We are leaving the century of oil and we are entering the century of not work," said author Peter Annin. "And so in the next 100 years and beyond, I in the final analysis do think it’s going to be all about water. We really don’t grasp how much pressure will come in the future on the Great Lakes."
A consequential compact designed to protect the Great Lakes against that tension from diversions was signed into law in 2008.
Now it's facing its first big test in a eager suburb of Milwaukee.
To get a sense for just how colossal the lakes are, and what is at stake, I went out to the shores of Lake Michigan with Joel Brammeier, turn of the Alliance for the Great Lakes . We saw a tiny corner of Indiana, and then well-grounded the blue horizon.
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