As a person residing on the South Shore of Lake Erie, some years back 
riding the "Polar Bear Express" train to South tip of Hudson Bay, I 
noticed several Ontario Hydro Electric facilities. Thought crossed my 
mind about changing the divide to move more water from the great lakes 
toward Hudson Bay. There was very recently an international agreement 
that (I believe) prevents that. The local regional treated water 
supplier was unable to supply the area 30 miles South of Lake Erie with 
Lake Erie source water, since the area drained to the Ohio River.

As far as wasting water from the lakes, Niagara Falls is the bottom 
line, and a night the flow is cut to a trickle. Both the Canadians and 
USA power plants use pumped storage to use the maximum efficiency.

As for myself, we collect all the roof water in a 8000 gallon cistern  
(underground tank) and use it for everything except drinking and 
cooking. We generally run a minimum water bill from the treated water 
out front.

Peter Todd wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:42:58PM -0700, Tobias Gogolin wrote:
>   
>> No actually its not really wifi if its fiber optic...
>> and they got it all wrong after the antenna cable is flushed the rest of the
>> underground sewer tube is like the wave guide to the TiSP sewer antennas...
>> Fiber optic, yeah right that shit is way to opaque...
>>     
>
> Opaque? I dunno, I'm from Canada, right in the middle of the biggest
> freshwater collection in the world, and we waste our water by the
> lake-full...
>
>   
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