Re: No simple solution for Great Lakes

[Guest guest]

What they really need to look at is the draining of the aquifers than lead into the Great Lakes. There are some water bottling plants that are sucking up so much water that ponds and swamps miles from the factory are drying up and creeks are running lower and lower. Then there is all the water being pulled out for agriculture and then essentially wasted via the poor watering systems.

It really probably would have been much better to have left much the plains as they were and focused on harvesting the vast buffalo herds. They existed in the tens of millions at one time and I'm sure that with proper management, they could have supplied a large amount of meat for very little cost since they are wild grazed and all that. I know there is some movement to put parts of the prairie as a vast national park, but that's not the same thing since everything would be off limits to human usage.

In a message dated 6/15/2011 10:01:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

And any measure that helps one part of the lakes is pretty much guaranteed to do harm to others up or downstream.