Mayor Jeff Scrima is demanding that water utility staff highlight all changes made in a city application for a Great Lakes water supply between the time the Common Council approved the plan on April 8 and when it was submitted to state environmental officials six weeks later ...
A new generation of yellow perch is being netted about a mile from Lake Michigan at an urban fish and vegetable farm called Sweet Water Organics, which mimics the Earth's natural ecosystem in a cavernous industrial building ...
Is it possible to intentionally become a hub of a particular industry? We explore that subject in today's installment of Project Milwaukee: The Currency of Water ...
Waukesha -- Mayor Larry Nelson has canceled a Dec. 8 public hearing and special Common Council meeting on the city's proposed switch to Lake Michigan water.The meeting will be rescheduled in early January to give city staff more time to complete a draft application, officials said.Waukesha intends to seek the approval of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and each of the governors of the seven other Great Lakes states to buy Lake Michigan water ...
Waukesha's pursuit of Lake Michigan water does not have to wait until state rules are adopted implementing a Great Lakes protection compact, state Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank says in a letter to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ...
Wisconsin water usage per residence has dropped by 6.7 percent over the period from 2004 to 2008 as water conservation efforts in the state continue to grow, according to an annual study from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin ...