There is nothing like water, shimmering in your backyard pool, bubbling up in the bathtub or kneading your neck from a pulsating shower head. Ask the folks in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills how much they missed it last week. And there is no water like Great Lakes water. If you have been on a well, or traveled much outside the region, you know. The water's a touch salty or oily or rusty.
People drink from the jug in the fridge or the bubbler in the corner.
Don't drink the water at all. So it is understandable that enterprising businesspeople want to scoop millions of gallons of water from the lakes, bottle it and sell it in Asia and the Middle East, the fastest-growing nations, places where water is always in short supply. This should not be allowed. If the Great Lakes are to stay great, they must stay put. Michigan, surrounded by these magnificent sweet water seas, should be leading the charge in their defense.