(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – A focused effort is required if the Milwaukee region is to become a hub of water research and industry. Water offers the region terrific economic development potential, but that effort cannot be diluted.
And development of a strong water industry also requires the concentration that only a full-time staff can bring. As valuable as the work of volunteers has been, those volunteers have day jobs and other professional concerns. The effort needs someone whose day job it is to help make Milwaukee a center of water research and development.
What the research effort doesn’t need is action by the University of Wisconsin System that could dilute what’s happening at UW-Milwaukee. More