Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/water-privatization/page/2/)
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently inducted its first brewery into the statewide Green Tier program for sustainable businesses.
Many Great Lakes craft breweries advocate sustainability through smart water use.
U.S. Army officials propose building a public water supply as an alternative to using private wells threatened by contamination from an old weapons complex near Madison.
Water flooding has been around for decades, but now it is becoming more economically viable as energy prices rise.
A new report says energy extraction is pressuring the nation’s water supply.
But there is little information on how much water is being traded to produce oil.
Shoreline property owners in Ontario have privileges right down to the lakes.
Whether you can walk along a Great Lakes beach depends – sometimes to be legal you have to get your feet wet.
Check out these two stories that appeared on Echo recently. One is this piece by Gary Wilson about privatizing public water service in Chicago. The other is this piece by Kari Lydersen about the Kennecott mine proposal in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They don’t appear to have much in common. One is commentary on a big city urban issue.