Dec 11, 2006

Wisconsin Water at the center of great debate

USA Today: The Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin gets half its water from the Great Lakes and half from underground wells that are tainted with radium, a radioactive element. The city of 38,500 has a simple solution to its water problem: draw more water from Lake Michigan, 10 miles away. That probably won't happen. New Berlin may look like a typical Midwestern suburb, but it's really a border town – on the edge of the Great Lakes watershed – and the west side of town is on the wrong side of ...Link   (VIA-EcologicalInternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry ;-)