The Fresh Water Crisis

In the morning I drink a glass of water, take a shower and make breakfast. Using a lot of fresh water to complete my morning routines. With the close proximity of our community to Lake Michigan this seems obvious. However, stated in the constitution, is that nobody has complete power over lakes and rivers. Therefore, states like Nevada, Arizona and Texas have just as much access to our fresh water resources as we do. Can you imagine a giant pipeline running from Lake Michigan to Nevada? Desert states would suck the Great Lakes dry. People sometimes do not take the fresh water crisis seriously because they believe that we will be able to utilize desalinization or have new technology that will solve our issues with shortages on fresh water. However, this is our one planet and we have limited resources, so we need to start respecting these resources and stop pollutting them in an effort to avoid a crisis involving fresh water.