Oh, I see this master plan that has been decades in the making---
First, NV legalizes gambling, gets all the people from the Great Lake states to visit, and then has the games rigged so we will leave NV with massive debt. Then they demand the Great Lakes water as payment on those defaulted debts!
But, then came a kink in the plan. Most of these states have allowed casino gambling, mostly by Native American tribes. So now we can go broke in the privacy of our own states (and provinces) and won't become indentured to NV, thus keeping all the water for ourselves!
Whew, NV almost got us there! (tis a bit of humour, in case you didn't get that).

You really didn't think I was serious and research it did you? Wow

MILTONalum.........It's called satire. English Classes in the Janesville School District spend some time on it.
And you are correct. We want all of that snowbird money we can get!

NVGRF, it will never happen, i researched it a bit and do you think the snowbird states are going to do anything to discourage tourism and millions of dollars spent yearly in those states?.......

*#1 exporter of crude oil TO THE United States*

Gahhh

Funny one wisconsinheat!
Add this to the fact that Canada is the #1 exporter of crude oil United States, and now I WILL start to worry about the coming invasion! ;-)

janesvillean-
I got that info from this link:
http://www.glc.org/docs/declarations.pdf...

jsvlparkergrad, the Great Lakes Basin Compact is only a compact between the U.S. states in the watershed to harmonize their own laws and policies, as well as to advocate as a group for the lakes' protection. It's authorized by Congress.
http://www.glc.org/
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The actual oversight of the Great Lakes as a whole falls to the International Joint Commission, which draws its authority from the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty between Canada and the United States.
http://www.ijc.org/
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Anything the GLC does is within the treaty authority.

Canada can do what they want with it.
It's not like Bush would send in the troops or anything...oh, wait a minute.

I like the way that 8 states in the United States gets to determine what happens to large bodies of water that belong to two countries.
What I have read about this "Compact" is that the Provinces of Ontario and Québec have "associate Member Status", and "presently enjoy 'Observer' status within the Great Lakes Commission".
Isn't America great or what!

I don't see any mention of bringing water INTO the great lakes from other bodies of water. If it is just for taking water OUT of the great lakes, it will do nothing to protect our waters. Although, I could be missing something from this little blurb of a story.

Wisconsin has agreed to send Nevada all the water they want.
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The only caveat is that we add barley and hops, and put it in cans first.

The Tri-State Commission is in turn crafting a compact to charge a hefty user fee to all Great Lakes snowbirds who come out here in the winter to use Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, Lake Havasu, and Lake Powell. Some on the Commission also want to add a substantial room tax for those coming from Great Lakes states to our three major gambling towns of Las Vegas, Reno and Laughlin. They will only go forward with it if the Great Lakes Compact is ratified. That's OK....you folks can go to Ho Chunk while we drink bottled water.

Hooray! Thank you very much for saving our water.