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Representatives of Great Lakes states and provinces have given preliminary approval to a precedent-setting request by a Wisconsin city to draw water from Lake Michigan.
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Group cuts Great Lakes water diversion request
A Milwaukee suburb's precedent-setting request to draw water from Lake Michigan has been significantly reduced by representatives from the Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces considering the water diversion.
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Read More »Regional leaders to consider who should access Great Lakes
A push for expanded access to water from the Great Lakes is at a key point as a regional regulating group meets in Chicago this week to consider a request from a Milwaukee suburb to draw from Lake Michigan.
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Read More »Letter to the editor: Criticism of Waukesha’s proposal doesn’t hold water
Waukesha has applied to borrow and return Great Lakes water because we need a healthy and sustainable water supply. We are making the request under the terms of the Great Lakes Compact, a binding agreement reached among states bordering the Lakes and that we helped enact.
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Read More »Environmentalists oppose Waukesha’s Lake Michigan plan
More than two dozen Michigan environmental groups are asking Gov. Rick Snyder to reject a Wisconsin city's request to tap Lake Michigan for drinking water.
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Read More »Great Lakes cities group opposes Waukesha water withdrawal
An organization representing more than 100 local governments is fighting an effort by Waukesha to use Lake Michigan as its drinking water source.
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Read More »Officials to gather testimony on Waukesha’s Lake Michigan application
Representatives of the Great Lakes states will be in Waukesha on Wednesday and Thursday to learn more about the city’s application to use Lake Michigan’s water as a supply for its residents.
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Read More »Waukesha officials make case for tapping Great Lakes water
Flint, Mich., residents aren’t the only people pleading with state officials for a source of clean water.
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Read More »Public hearing set on Waukesha request for Lake Michigan water
Waukesha residents will have an opportunity to attend a public hearing regarding the city’s application to use water from Lake Michigan as an alternative to continuing to deplete the city's own progressively more polluted aquifer.
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Read More »Michigan promises careful review of Waukesha water withdrawal request
Michigan officials say they'll carefully study a request by the city of Waukesha to use Lake Michigan for its drinking water.
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