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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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