…The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body came up with a tentative plan that would reduce the number of communities in a future water service area. Peter Annin with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College says right now, it looks likely Waukesha will…
…is anything in nature that will withstand the passing of time, this inland ocean would seem a likely candidate. Peter Annin knows better. The author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, which examines the fight to protect the lakes from an encroaching and increasingly water-starved world, has stood in the…
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…
…withstand weather extremes much more gracefully. “Most Wisconsin farms are designed, for example, to get rid of excess water,” she explains. “Our farm is being set up to capture every drop of water we receive. Without water it doesn’t really matter what perfect balance of nutrients you have, so to…
…as Water Protectors who have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend the land and water from a $3.8 billion, 1,200-mile pipeline slated to run under Lake Oahe and the Missouri River. The Spirit of Standing Rock is a collection of soulful narratives from Water Protectors,…
Annin, Lehr address crowd of 100 A highlight of the Northland College Fall Festival weekend of events took place Friday at the Alvord theater as some 100 people attended the opening of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation, a center devoted to freshwater science, environmental literacy, communication and…
…to be inside the city during the 1800s, with others in surrounding Waukesha County. “This city was a water destination,” Peter Annin, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars and co-director of Northland College’s Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation, said. To read full article in the Toledo Blade….
…of the Burke Center and author of the Great Lakes Water Wars, delving into the long history of political maneuvers and water diversion schemes that have proposed sending Great Lakes water everywhere from Akron to Arizona. Through the prism of the past, his talk analyzes the future of Great Lakes…
