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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (102031)	7/25/2013 3:06:42 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217825

>>All US need do is take water from any border lake.. what is Canada going to do<< LOL, here's another version of Smackwater Jack for ya... :o)

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (102031)	7/25/2013 9:36:38 PM
From: GPS Info	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217825

All US need do is take water from any border lake.. what is Canada going to do[?] They can complain to the UN, if they can make it to NYC.<g> yeah what are the odds :O) Not in my lifetime likely but that's probably only 30 years at the outside. Well OK, any country may do something extreme when its back is against a wall. My normal mode is to consider cases with the highest probabilities and then work my way down the list. For the US to forcibly take water from a common source with Canada seems possible, but I can't see it happening in the next 30 years, so we probably agree there. It seems more likely that the US would work out a payment scheme with Canada. I would also wonder about advances in desalination techniques which will be developed over these same 30 years. Imagine if we decided to reduce the flow to the Columbia on Canada's side LOL.. Loss of water for irrigation.. potential. massive loss of hydro power... This, I don't understand. What percent of the Columbia River would be affected by diverting the water within Canada? Washington State receives plenty of rainfall and a significant amount of that flows into the Columbia. The Snake River also flows into the Columbia from Idaho and Wyoming. There is a LOT of water in the Columbia getting to the Pacific. Where would this diverted water go within Canada? I have heard interesting comments from Canadians in my travels about the influence and power of the US. During one visit to BC, a man suggested to me that because of the separatist movements, if a breakup of Canada did occur, the US should claim BC to have a physical connection to Alaska. Supposedly, we would have the support of the locals. Others have commented about the poor condition of roads just north of the border compared to south of the boarder. Personally, I have never heard or read of anyone in the US wanting to take something from Canada without paying for it. Why piss off a good neighbor? There was a time when the US allowed slavery, and women couldn't vote, and children worked in dangerous factories. The US also took land from Mexico and invaded Canada, but didn't stay there long. In WWII the US firebombed civilian targets in Dresden and Tokyo. Many things have changed since then. I can't justify US actions before WWII, but I think that the US and all other nations must justify what they do since becoming signatories of the UN Charter. This is my demarcation point of "no return" for nations. I can't accept excuses for a nation's actions because some other county did something similar back in 1830. Maybe in the next 30 years US finally collapses financially and politically and breaks with the United Nations. Canada might become a safe haven and temperate after the icecaps melt. It could then become the new world superpower with other areas of a broken US. I shudder at the thought.<g>

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (102031)	7/26/2013 8:46:44 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217825

Canada would not be viable or sustainable without the US directly south of us. Right now in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba some of our best farm land is flooded. If we were to release more water it would probably be considered and act of war by North Dakota who has water problems of their own. The real problem is Obama does not want our so called dirty oil that we already sell to the US at a discount to the market. I say give the US one more shot at it and if they don't want it sell it directly to Asian markets. I was just in Mongolia where the dichotomy is even larger than Canada - USA, 2 million Mongols next to 2 billion Chinese. One of the Russians I was with was saying why didn't we annex this country. The richest copper and coal mines are just north of the Chinese border and if you were to divvy up the wealth the net worth of every Mongolian citizen would be higher than in Cap Ferrat.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (102031)	8/18/2013 3:16:22 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217825

Maybe we could try a sacrifice to Mighty Kukulkan... Decade of Drought Threatens West online.wsj.com August 16, 2013, 7:10 p.m. ET BOULDER CITY, Nev.—Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the nation, is shrinking drastically—with consequences that could ripple across the West. More than a decade into a drought that has plagued the Southwest, federal officials for the first time plan a sharp cut in the amount of Colorado River water that flows 360 miles from Lake Powell into Lake Mead. In the year starting Oct. 1, officials at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Friday, that supply will drop by nearly 10%—roughly equivalent to the annual water usage of about 700,000 families. The cut will translate into a reduction in hydroelectric power generation in some areas served by the reservoir—Nevada, Arizona and California—and brings the reservoir level close to a federal declaration of a water shortage. Such a declaration would mean that Nevada and Arizona would face having their water allocations cut. These are the days of our great lament. The land thirsts. A great plague infests our crops. The scourge of sickness affects us at whim. They say that this strife has made us weak. That we have become empty. They say that we rot!