The water from the Great Lakes is not being exported wholesale to Asia or the Chinese.
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Four of the Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Ontario and Superior—are split between the U.S. and Canada. (Lake Michigan is entirely in the U.S.) Until 2017, American boaters did indeed need to be concerned about venturing into foreign waters and getting into trouble with customs authorities.
The lakes are divided among the jurisdictions of the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The Great Lakes Compact is a 2008 federal agreement signed by the eight Great Lakes states and the two Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It prohibits new or increased diversions of water from the Great Lakes to areas outside the Great Lakes-St.
10% of the entire planet's fresh water are contained in one inland sea. The amount of snow that gets melted and runs into the Great Lakes each year is so vast, that there is zero chance of running low. Droughts don't exist up there. Here in Perth Western Australia we have a dam, little rain and treated water.
Significant progress has been made in reducing toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes, but some chemicals, such as PCBs, still pose a threat to human health and the environment. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are higher in the waters of lakes Erie and Ontario than in other lakes.