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"Detroit may has been stealing Canadian water for 44 years.
It seems the Motor City's drinking-water intake pipe extends about 100 yards across the international boundary in the Detroit River, and it's been siphoning as much as 32 billion gallons a year since 1964 without a water-taking permit.
"The City of Detroit was unfamiliar with Ontario requirements for water takings and has never had a permit to take water," the Ontario Ministry of the Environment told the Hamilton Spectator.
Alerted to the water grab when Detroit conducted a screening under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act for maintenance work on its southwest water treatment plant in 2006, the ministry now plans to exempt the city from provincial regulations.
The public has until Jan. 31 to comment on a proposal to let Detroit continue to operate the intake without a permit "because of the historical nature and unique circumstances."
It would also be exempt from fees "as administering the charge would be onerous and difficult to enforce."
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- < (P.S., they need a better editor, but the story is true)Jaline