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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11258)	9/9/2010 3:08:46 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) of 24215

here's an interesting response to that article. my own thoughts ... if the u.s. wants our water to keep their golf courses green and we're not willing, well, there will just have to be a regime change i suppose ..... like always. Mr. Rubin's comparison of desalinating seawater and using the Athabasca River in the production of synthetic oil is not very accurate. Alberta water is used, then recycled, and then re-used. It is not lost in the process. Just like the water in the Colorado River is used and then re-used on average between 6 & 7-times before it reaches the Gulf of California. The Athabasca River flows north in Great Slave Lake, becomes the Mackenzie River, and then eventually empties into the Beaufort Sea where that fresh water is lost forever. Syncrude and Suncor are using some of that water that would otherwise be lost to the sea in any case. Mr. Rubin gives the impression that Florida and California are using desalinated seawater to fill swimming pools and irrigate farmland. That is not the case. It is for drinking water. It's a big difference and he should know that if he is being honest. As most of Canada's rivers flow north it would not be very practical or economical to divert it to the SW United States to places like Arizona or New Mexico. Especially not from places like Quebec. Florida would be closer. But all you have to do is look at a map to see that the Mississippi is a closer source of water for Florida. Plus unlike natural gas or crude oil where if a customer cannot or will not pay you can simpy sell it to someone that can and will, once you start selling water you cannot stop. That is considered an act of war. He also neglected to say that the water in the Great Lakes is covered by an international treaty between Canada and the USA that forbids that water from being sold outside the Great Lakes Basin. That is to stop Great Lake states from selling that water to their thirsty neighbors.

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