Interesting. I never thought about the fact that while you cannot build a pipe to the States to move masses of water or fill container ships full of it in bulk for the Paraguyan market, if you put it in 500 ml plastic bottles, put 24 bottles in a box, put 144 boxes on a pallet and fill a truck full of pallets to the States or Paraguay, Bob's your uncle. [For our non-English readers, "Bob's your uncle" = "you're larfing".]
No more. In another change to make up for the no-tax but spend-big Tory wingnuts (who we are now apparently up to 7.8 billion in hock over) if you pump you pay. Good. If you are running a business based on a natural resource you do not own, pay the person who owns it. Little known fact: ownership of the surface of land is not ownership of the sub-surface.
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j - December 19, 2003 3:25 PM
I once read somewhere that the US has a deal with Canada that would allow fresh water to be pumped into the US for a very small fee. What really sucks is that apparently that water would be pumped into the US no matter what. So say all of Canada's water sources except one were polluted, the fresh water would still be pumped into the US and we would not be able to turn off the tap (haha) and we wouldn't necessarily have access to the fresh source. Not sure if it was BS or not, it was one of those "Future wars will not be over oil it will be over water" articles that were popular during the first round of fuel price increases.