How soon before they start pumping and transferring water from the Great Lakes to the West??

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24. An agreement with Canada... they struggle to allow water 10 miles from the lake

Waukesha WI has very high levels of radon in the public wells. Toxic levels above federal standards.

It' took a decades long fight to get the Compact to allow water to be diverted to Waukesha, and one of the conditions was RETURNING treated wastewater to the Lake Michigan basin (The Fox river in Waukesha flows into the Illinois, Mississippi and then into the Gulf of Mexico.

The reason the return of wastewater was a deal is that under the Compact any new draws on Lake Michigan must be returned as treated waste water so that there is no/negligible net loss of water.

The cost to pipe water to the west would be staggering, the price to return it to Lake Michigan would be twice staggering

Personally, I think terraforming is a better option. Though desalination of seawater from the Gulf of California may be less radical.