{"id":195008,"date":"2008-08-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/03\/great-lakes-basin-compact-passes-senate\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:00:00","slug":"great-lakes-basin-compact-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/03\/great-lakes-basin-compact-passes-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Basin Compact Passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/02\/AR2008080201389.html\">Great Lakes Basin Compact<\/a> is a multi-state agreement that would, among other things, prevent transfer of water out of the region and coordinate environmental efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that it&#8217;s being cast as preventing the export of water to foreign nations, though it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">far<\/span> more likely that any mass transfers would be to the mountain west, parts of which rely on the rapidly depleting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogallala_Aquifer\">Ogallala aquifer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the House will pass it too, and Bush has said that he will sign it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Lakes Basin Compact is a multi-state agreement that would, among other things, prevent transfer of water out of the region and coordinate environmental efforts. It&#8217;s interesting that it&#8217;s being cast as preventing the export of water to foreign nations, though it&#8217;s far more likely that any mass transfers would be to the mountain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1079,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-environment","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}