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Diversions From The Great Lakes: Out Of The Watershed And In Contravention Of The Compact, Christina L. Wabiszewski

Marquette Law Review

Alarmingly, in the next fifty years the United States will face not just drought, but complete dissemination of readily accessible water resources in areas ranging from its breadbaskets to its commercial and financial epicenters. As these lakes, reservoirs, wells, and aquifers drain, the communities that depend upon them will seek alternative and further-reaching water sources into which they can dip their proverbial straws. The most alluring and perhaps the most vital of these sources are the Great Lakes. In recognition that such straws may descend and that “Future Diversions and Consumptive Uses of Basin Water resources have the potential to …