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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.