Outgoing NGA chair Napolitano said Arizona, where the temperature hasn't dipped below 100 in the afternoon since May, intends to solve its own water problems.
"The advantage we have as a desert state is that we've always managed water," Napolitano said. "We're looking at new ways of conservation and technologies that can be employed, so even as our population grows, we are able to manage our water accordingly. And that does not mean taking it from the Great Lakes."
"Amen, sister," Granholm responded.
Despite such reassurances, Michigan lawmakers will soon take up water legislation that ratifies a 2004 compact by the Great Lakes states, Ontario and Quebec to ban the diversion of Great Lakes water out of the basin.
http://www.mlive.com/news/statewide/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1185052210249070.xml&coll=1
Too bad governors' pledges, like those of other politicians, are not enforceable in a court of law.
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