CUOMO PRESSURED TO VETO GREAT LAKES WATER WITHDRAWAL SCHEME →

The Buffalo Chronicle, March 31, 2016
Author: James Hufnagel

“Waukesha… would have to spend an estimated $67 million to rid its water of radium,” it is reported, and “has spent nearly $500,000 in legal fees and research in an effort to disprove that radium poses a danger at levels… found in Waukesha water.”

“(T)he city will need to find another source of water in the future to serve the demands of a growing population and industrial base… (and) is also looking toward Lake Michigan as a potential water source.” Sixteen years later, a decade and a half during which the city could have implemented any number of conservation and water savings strategies to cope with its predicament, as so many other communities across the country have, Waukesha’s solution is to tap into one of the sole remaining bodies of freshwater extant on the planet.