Diversion
Minnesota delay imperils “getting Waukesha right”
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Request undermines impressive progress toward badly needed water stewardship win.
Water
Great Lakes Month in Review: phosphorus and diversion
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Current State’s Great Lakes Month in Review for June looks at reducing phosphorous runoff into Lake Erie and a Wisconsin town that wants to draw its drinking water from Lake Michigan.
Water
Great Lakes year in review: Tar sands, governors’ summit, budget battles and Waukesha
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Great Lakes Echo commentator Gary Wilson looks back at some of the biggest Great Lakes stories of 2013.
Echo
Here’s why the Great Lakes should care about a court decision affecting water in the southwest
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A Supreme Court decision involving a Texas/Oklahoma water conflict could affect the Great Lakes.
Water
Rethink, respect water and there will be plenty, author says
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Growing populations, droughts, climate change and water scarcity all threaten global water needs.
But we have plenty of water, according to Charles Fishman, author of The Big Thirst. We just need to rethink our relationship to it.
Echo
Nearshore ecosystem at risk by Ohio compromise on Great Lakes water compact
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The Ohio governor likely will sign into law industry-soft rules for enforcing mother of all regional water compacts.
Has he sacrificed the near-shore health of Lake Erie?
Echo
Check out midterm report card on Great Lakes Compact
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Two and half years after Great Lakes states agreed to cut down on water diversion and excessive withdrawals from the lakes, the National Wildlife Foundation has reported on how they’re doing. The highlights:
Michigan and Wisconsin have the most notable success, passing legislation to cover all aspects of the compact and administering the program. New York and Ohio only recently enacted legislation to comply with the requirements of the Great Lakes Compact. They deferred to advisory boards for their recommendations. Illinois and Minnesota contend that their statutes and programs are sufficient to control water diversion and withdrawal. They adopted the compact without creating further requirements. Indiana and Pennsylvania created skeletal programs and allowed environmental agencies to fill in the flesh. They have no detailed programs or rules.
Water
Latest battle for Lake Erie tests regional agreement to protect Great Lakes
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In 1813 young naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry led the warship Niagara to victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie. Today Lake Erie is a battleground for a different water conflict.
Water
Lake Michigan or groundwater? Water-strapped Chicago suburb eyes options
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Lake Zurich is now supplied by an aquifer pumped faster than it can recharge.
And the water requires expensive treatment.
At the same time, the village’s sewer capacity is strained.
Water
Funding cuts threaten an award-winning water management tool
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Two years after implementing an online tool to reduce the impacts of excessive water withdrawal from the Great Lakes, funding that supports the Michigan project has dropped by more than 90 percent.