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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by mastax on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:03PM (#27909763)
The Great Lakes Compact forbids that. As an agreement between states it went through US Congress, so theoretically an act of Congress could repeal or modify it. However this seems unlikely to me due to the Midwest's outsized political influence and how protective locals are of the lakes.
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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by OldHand2018 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:41PM (#27910269)
The Great Lakes Compact has a giant loophole you could drive a train full of water right through.

You can export water out of the watershed in containers no larger than 5.7 gallons (~21.5 liters)

Build a short loop of rail, half in the watershed and half out of it. Drive a train in a circle continuously. When you are inside the watershed, fill up the 5.7 gallon containers (just make it a continuous waterfall that you drive through or something). When you are outside the watershed, dump them into a reservoir/pumping facility. There's nothing anybody could do about it.

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by rory on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:47PM (#27911960)
> There's nothing anybody could do about it.

All the states with GL watershed agreed to the compact not-so-long ago. In a case of such egregious rule-skirting, couldn't they just agree to close the loophole?

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by OldHand2018 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:23AM (#27984904)
Read up on the Nestle bottled water situation in Michigan. Nothing is being done, or proposed to be done.
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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by selectodude on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:18PM (#27910784)
They could shoot you.
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