(Dec. 22, 2008, Chicago Tribune)

Detroit may has been stealing Canadian water for 44 years.

It seems the Motor City’s drinking-water intake pipe extends about 100 yards across the international boundary in the Detroit River, and it’s been siphoning as much as 32 billion gallons a year since 1964 without a water-taking permit.

“The City of Detroit was unfamiliar with Ontario requirements for water takings and has never had a permit to take water,” the Ontario Ministry of the Environment told the Hamilton Spectator.

Alerted to the water grab when Detroit conducted a screening under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act for maintenance work on its southwest water treatment plant in 2006, the ministry now plans to exempt the city from provincial regulations.

Bookmark Me!
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Furl
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • TwitThis

Related posts:

  1. Cooperation is key to tentative water, sewerage deal in Detroit (Dec. 18, 2008, Detroit Free Press) City and suburban leaders...
  2. Melbourne 2008 Water Usage Down; Still Overdrew Its Water Supply By 80 Billion Litres or 21 Billion Gallons (Peter Ker, TheAge) (Jan. 7, 2009, The Age) MELBOURNE consumed slightly less water...
  3. Detroit expected to raise water, sewer rates (Nov. 30, 2008, The Chicago Tribune) Detroit officials are expected...
  4. The Saudi Arabia of Water: Canada Has 20% of The World’s Fresh Water (Mark Clayton, ChristianScienceMonitor) (May 29, 2008, Christian Science Monitor) Public fountains are dry...
  5. Delta Blues in California: Alarmism, Inflation and Damage Control (TheReporter) (Jan. 20, 2009, The Vacaville Reporter) Pushing hard to build...