…At issue with both Waukesha and Foxconn is an exemption that allows limited diversions outside the basin for “a group of largely residential customers that may also serve industrial, commercial, and other institutional operators.” Waukesha, a city of 70,000 west of Milwaukee, lies fully outside the basin but is within…
…basin, with limited exceptions.” Annin refers to the compact as a “legal water fence” that “is designed to keep Great Lakes water inside the Great Lakes basin.” RELATED: To listen to Peter Annin’s interview with Lester Graham visit here. Communities that are partially located in the Great Lakes basin, as…
Governors from all eight Great Lakes states had to sign off before Waukesha, Wis., could siphon water out of Lake Michigan. When Foxconn Technology Group wanted to dip a straw into the lake for its new electronics factory west of Racine, the Taiwan-based company had to undergo a rigorous legal…
…to send water over the basin to Mount Pleasant, largely to supply the $10 billion Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing complex currently under construction. Authors of the compact, privately, can’t agree on whether the DNR’s decision to approve water for Foxconn satisfies requirements of the agreement, said Peter Annin, author of…
Island Press will release the second edition of Peter Annin’s The Great Lakes Water Wars later this fall. The Great Lakes Water Wars, originally released in 2006, is considered the definitive work on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy. In this new and expanded edition of the book, Annin explores…
…test came in 2010 when Waukesha applied for a straddling county diversion. Waukesha agreed to return 100% of the water, yet more than 11,000 comments streamed in, the vast majority of them opposed. In 2016, the Great Lakes governors unanimously approved Waukesha’s diversion of 8.2 million gallons per day, but…
