However, Waukesha's desire to cure its water woes by either tapping Lake Michigan or drilling new wells in western Waukesha County is an archaic and politically risky resolution that can otherwise be fixed with better city management of the resource, a prominent educator told the forum.
"If Waukesha were to obtain Great Lakes water, it isn't really solving the lack of (water) management in the Waukesha area, it's simply transferring that deficit to the Great Lakes," said Doug Cherkauer, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Geosciences.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/oct05/361118.asp
Posted by Dave at October 7, 2005 06:05 AM