Comments for Water, water (not) everywhere at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:16:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/globalization/water,-water-%28not%29-everywhere-200807241751/#comment-638 Your post is all the more interesting to me for the fact that the states in the Northeast U.S. which border the Great Lakes, along with their Canadian counterparts, have recently concluded a pact to forbid the sale of any Great Lakes water outside of the natural watershed (catchment?). Though the northeastern economy is the weakest in the country, the irrational fear that global warming will make water a scarce commodity in America has trumped our relative poverty. Now that the agreement has been signed, activists are hard at work trying to close the so-called "bottled water loophole" which, they fear, will result in millions more gallons of "our" water being exported to the undeserving Southerners and Westerners via trendy designer plastic containers. Only in America. - Craig Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:33:00 +0100