Stealing?
Isn’t that water just going out to sea anyway? via st lawrence seaway?
They hve almost 2 billion people...How about a bucket brigade!
Yeah, I think Jesse's imagination is getting the best of him. Too much time fantasizing conspiracy theories, not enough time on geography.
Poor guy obviously never tried to get a Chinese tanker with a "huge bladder" behind it through the Welland Canal.
I only saw the Jesse Ventura episode about it. I have done no personal research to verify it.
According to JV, China is purchasing water through Evian or Perrier or some company like that .... so much so that the amounts of water they are draining from the lakes are actually lowering the water levels in the area.
He pointed to corrupt govt officials and lobbyists who have tinkered in the US and other countries with the laws and regs concerning water rights, etc. He showed pictures of these huge ships with even more huge bladders full of fresh water being towed behind them taking them to China where they are suffering the drought referred to in this thread, supposedly to recharge their own depleted aquifers.