My bias will be obvious, living within a ten minute stroll of Lake Huron, and with a family cottage on Georgian Bay. Our home is on municipal water and sewer services, the cottage has a cistern and holding tank for water and sewage. Leave the Great Lakes where they are, and the water that's in them.

The real issue is living within the means of mother earth without diversion, consumption, and with re-use and recycling. The vain and wasteful use of water on lawns and golf courses (for example), and the dilution of natural water resources with sewage and various other forms of pollution are merely symptoms of the larger issue that we (as a race) insist on living in a manner unsustainable by global AND local means. There are too many people using too much water in too many places.

Diverting water continues and enables the dependency on the resource in places where that resource does not exist naturally. To do this costs even more resources (electrical power, construction and maintenance costs, etc) to keep it going. It's an unending and self-destructing cycle of addiction. Just another example of what future generations will view as human folly caused by denial and lack of foresight.

Peace, Mooh.