BY REBECCA WILLIAMS, Michigan Radio Environment Report Waukesha wants to build a pipeline to the Great Lakes. The city is in southeast Wisconsin, 17 miles from Lake Michigan. It has a radium problem in its groundwater supply. Waukesha wants to fix its drinking water problem by pulling water from Lake…
…into the debate over Great Lakes water use, and under what conditions users outside the basin of the world’s largest freshwater system can lay claim to the resource. . . . . “This certainly is no surprise,” said [co-director of the Burke Center] and writer Peter Annin, author of the…
Please join the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation for our 2025 Marvin Pertzik World Water Day Program. We will be screening special excerpts from two Lake Superior documentaries exploring the legacy of Lake Superior and its estuaries in a time of significant change, including never before seen footage…
…intelligent adults whether or not water is a fossil fuel. The spread of environmental education in the schools is improving awareness–but not for adults. Churches, service organizations, city water and emergency response departments and other groups could all help fill this gap. Look locally and globally. When the national news…
By Danielle Kaeding, WPR Not a single person spoke in favor of Waukesha’s plan to get drinking water from Lake Michigan at a public hearing Thursday evening in Duluth, Minnesota. About 100 people attended the hearing, many of them questioning whether the city meets the standards to divert water under…
…doctor of ministry from United Theological Seminary. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 2014. She is married to Warren Turner and they have two adult children, Joe and Matrika. Bill Esposito William “Bill” Esposito is the president and founder of Ambient Group, Inc., a global environmental and water…
…water to drink, food from the fertile soil, the companionship of clouds and wood thrushes, the radiance of your beautiful faces and for the first peoples of this place, the Anishinabek in whose territory we convene this morning. Gchi megwech for the song, for the high honor of an eagle…
…water that Waukesha wants to start buying from nearby Oak Creek, Wis., within a few years. To the city of Racine, it’s also about the quality of 8.2 million gallons a day of treated wastewater, or effluent, Waukesha plans to put into the Root River to make up for what…
…for anyone to tap into the lakes. Still, when the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact was approved in 2008, the signatories left the door open, just a crack, for communities on the outside edge of the Great Lakes watershed to at least ask. Now, Waukesha is asking….
