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Corktown_paddy
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Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 2:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Funny as hell when I read about water 'rationing' out in the burbs when we're surrounded by five great lakes as well as St Clair.
What's the story there? Is it BS or can the Detroit River intake just not keep up any more with the urbanization?
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Gannon
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Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 3:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think it is just a ploy from the pharmaceutical industry to increase the blood pressure of those sub-sub-suburbanites who let others judge them on how perfect their LAWN is...my Livonia Friend just had an aneurism, I'm sure!!
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 3:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://wcco.com/local/local_st ory_102202722.html
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 265
Registered: 01-2007
Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 12:58 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think my well idea not so crazy after all.
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Yupislyr
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:16 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You do know that there's more involved than simply sucking the water out of the river/lakes and sending it down your pipes, right?

Water doesn't become drinkable in an instant by passing through a magic filter.
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 266
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I drink water right from the Detroit River, it's good! I filtered it through a used cigarette butt. I got baptized in it at Belle Isle too, so I’m as pure as the River.
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Harsensis
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:36 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Is that why you are so full of crap sometimes bullet? jk
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 267
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:42 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Check the incinerator thread, and why aren’t you in bed Harsensis,sawing logs? I’m turning in now…zzzZZZzzz…water...zzZZzz.. must...zZz.s..l..e..e..p...
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Harsensis
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Post Number: 252
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm getting ready to crash, but my son fell asleep in the car and then woke up putting him into bed, so he is three and wide awake.
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 269
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 1:59 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well your better off checking out some porn then looking at this crap. I'll e-mail a good link, I dont think the thread is about smut, or is it?
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Qweek
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 7:57 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Obscene Time article about the Great Lakes Water Pact, it's not even porn and I got all hot and bothered over it!

http://www.time.com/time/natio n/article/0,8599,1607849,00.ht ml

Dollar signs in the eyes of a few will drain the Lakes in no time.
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Bulletmagnet
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Post Number: 276
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 2:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for the linkage, Qweek. It would seem that water would be Michigan’s ace-in-the-hole. Rather then pumping our great lakes water down south, why don't we tell them to come up and build their sweat shops in Detroit where we could use them? But if we do drain the lakes, it would be so cool to walk around and pick up all the fish and junk on the lake bed. I bet we could even find the drain and it would be clogged with hair and zebra mussels. A couple weeks of rain would put an end to the treasure hunt and re-float the lakes fleet, with no harm done.
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Themax
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 4:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I had heard that the Great Lakes were losing water because of the warm winters when water was evaporating instead being held in by ice. But this info says we can expect lots of rain, maybe not when we need it, but lots of rain.

http://www.ucsusa.org/greatlak es/glimpactwater.html
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Oldredfordette
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We should just pretend it's oil and suck every last drop into our greedy lives until it's gone! Yeah!
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Corktownmark
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Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 11:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Water rationing in michigan is more often about preventing contamination because of low pressure in pipes then an actual shortage of water. When pressure drops instead of water going out through leaks contaminants enter the pipe. This can sometimes cause bacteria to enter the water supply.
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Sstashmoo
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Registered: 02-2007
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 5:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Corktownmark,

Probably right, the city of Redford stopped by last week to make sure I had check valves on any fawcett with a garden hose connected. Now it makes sense why they were here.

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