India to serve as hub for US water

In a commercial scheme that attempts to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change,water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new,yet-to-be-built water hub in Mumbai and then exported to arid cities in the Middle East.

A San Antonio,Texas,based company has announced plans to export 12 billion gallons of water per year from the Blue Lake Reservoir in Sitka,Alaska,to a new,yet-to-be-built water hub on the west coast of India.

There8217;s trillions of litres of water in a three mile-long reservoir near a town called Sitka in the archipelago off the western coast of Canada.

It8217;s named Blue Lake,and fewer than 9,000 people live nearby,meaning that there8217;s very little local pressure on the water supply.