THE GREAT LAKES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 58, 6 May 1924, Page 8

THE GREAT LAKES

DIVERSION OF WATER. Press Association- Copyright. Australian and N v OnhlA Aw-tntion Washington, May -1. An important incident affecting the United states and Canada ha.s. just been disclosed by the State Department's publication of correspondence with the British Embassy on the question of the waters of the Great Lakes, Canada, declaring ''hat these water?, are a common per tage of the peoples of both countries, and iHi - tests mosi earnestly a"'a'iis| the nropnsal to divert the water from tho Oreat Lakes watershed to the Mississippi watershed. American engineers hav rnggested such a diversion in th-^''.crests of the middle and western cities of the Tinted States, which. desire to bei'd on l trade by way of the Oulf of Mexico. Canada, moreover, protests against Chicago's present diversion of much water from Lake Michican for sanitnrv purposes. The dominion a'leges that tin's already has lowered the waters of the Great Lakes, affecting Canadian harbours upon, which im '' lions have been soent, and further lira mi age would infL'et great tletri-n-"ii+, on navigation from Fault, Ste Ma'i" to tidewater, especially injur in.r Montreal's status as the Dommion's great port.