By Gary Wilson In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once ...

a brilliant idea underscored legislatively by the Great Lakes Compact. The American-made deal between the bordering states was signed into law in 2008 by president George W. Bush — a Texan, no less.

Canada, with its two million freshwater lakes and shared Great Lakes, holds about 20 percent of the planet’s freshwater reserves. Lake Superior alone contains enough water to submerge North and South ...