Water filtration systems can be installed at the site of acquiring the water from the aquifer. Regular testing is required to insure quality. Waukesha, Wisconsin needs to improve it's pollution record especially considering it's future plans.
August 25, 2015
By Monica Davey
WAUKESHA, Wis. — This city, (click here) once famous for its bubbling natural springs, sits
about 17 miles from the shore of Lake Michigan. So when the state and
federal authorities began demanding that the city address a growing
contamination problem in its aquifer, the answer seemed simple: Get
water from the big lake.
Surely,
city leaders imagined, the needs of Waukesha, with a population just
over 70,000, would be but a drop from the gigantic Great Lakes bucket,
which amounts to one-fifth of the earth’s fresh surface water. That
little drop, however, has stirred up a colossal struggle.
Waukesha has run smack into a landmark 2008 compact that prohibits large
amounts of water from the five Great Lakes from being pumped, trucked,
shipped or otherwise moved beyond the system’s natural basin without
approval from the governors of each of the eight states that touch a
lake — unless it is in a product like beer or soft drinks. Waukesha,
despite being so close to Lake Michigan, is about a mile and a half
outside the lake’s natural basin....
The plans of Waukesha water supply. I suppose tapping the Great Lakes will satisfy much more than modest growth.
It is predicted (click here) that the City will serve more customers in the future. In southeastern Wisconsin, population is expected to increase modestly in all counties over the next 20 years....
When it is cost effective, Scott Walker wants to eliminate EPA requirements. What else is new? This is called government corruption.
July 28, 2015
By Steven Verburg
Gov. Scott Walker wants to all but eliminate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (click here) and place each state in charge of controlling air and water pollution within its borders if he is elected president, he told a conservative newspaper.
“I’m all for a sustainable environment, but you have to balance it with a sustainable economy, and I think in our state we’ve shown you can do that hand in hand,” Walker told the Washington Examiner in an article published Monday. “I think states can do it all across America much better than the federal government.”
Critics said without the EPA there would be a “race to the bottom” among politicians in states competing for business investment with fewer safeguards in one state against pollution flowing through the air or water to another state.
“You don’t need a college degree to know that air and water pollution do not respect state boundaries,” said Daniel J. Weiss, a League of Conservation Voters spokesman in Washington. “Wisconsin would be virtually helpless to protect its citizens from pollution from other states.”
Weiss said he hadn’t seen another 2016 presidential candidate make a similar proposal....
Indeed.
Water quality is water quality. Why should 50 states create their own standards when one federal agency can do the work?
When Scott Walker states it is best for states to set their own standards, he is saying I plan to let business exploit the health, quality of life and well being of the people of Wisconsin.
One might ask why this is such an agenda item for Scott Walker.
February 23, 2013
Imagine a shipbuilder constructing a new boat (click here) that has within its design holes in the hull that will sink the vessel as it enters the water. Imagine an aircraft company building a plane that has wings that fall off once 20-mile-per-hour winds come into play as it attempts to leave the runway. Stupid, right?
So imagine a group of Republican legislators coin-operated by the many propaganda arms and billions of dollars from the Koch Brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), DC Beltway rat Grover Norquist, the Carlyle Group and others trying to push through certainly unconstitutional, environmentally careless mining deregulation legislation doomed to be in costly litigation for years before the first digging the proposed largest open-pit iron-ore mine in the world.
It’s bound to make lots of lawyers very happy and the pricey kickbacks for the Republicans who support the legislation will keep them primed for more extremist legislation down the political road. Getting rid of many historic environmental mining standards involving wetlands, groundwater, rock disposal that even moderate Republicans in the past supported is so easy when the current Republicans are bought and paid for....
No, there is no basic for the accusations of corruption within the Scott Walker governance of Wisconsin.
Really?
I have to admit, Walker is quick on his feet, but, when it comes to moral governance and protecting the people from exploitation at the cost of their health he gets an "F-".
The plans of Waukesha water supply. I suppose tapping the Great Lakes will satisfy much more than modest growth.
It is predicted (click here) that the City will serve more customers in the future. In southeastern Wisconsin, population is expected to increase modestly in all counties over the next 20 years....
When it is cost effective, Scott Walker wants to eliminate EPA requirements. What else is new? This is called government corruption.
July 28, 2015
By Steven Verburg
Gov. Scott Walker wants to all but eliminate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (click here) and place each state in charge of controlling air and water pollution within its borders if he is elected president, he told a conservative newspaper.
“I’m all for a sustainable environment, but you have to balance it with a sustainable economy, and I think in our state we’ve shown you can do that hand in hand,” Walker told the Washington Examiner in an article published Monday. “I think states can do it all across America much better than the federal government.”
Critics said without the EPA there would be a “race to the bottom” among politicians in states competing for business investment with fewer safeguards in one state against pollution flowing through the air or water to another state.
“You don’t need a college degree to know that air and water pollution do not respect state boundaries,” said Daniel J. Weiss, a League of Conservation Voters spokesman in Washington. “Wisconsin would be virtually helpless to protect its citizens from pollution from other states.”
Weiss said he hadn’t seen another 2016 presidential candidate make a similar proposal....
Indeed.
Water quality is water quality. Why should 50 states create their own standards when one federal agency can do the work?
When Scott Walker states it is best for states to set their own standards, he is saying I plan to let business exploit the health, quality of life and well being of the people of Wisconsin.
One might ask why this is such an agenda item for Scott Walker.
February 23, 2013
Imagine a shipbuilder constructing a new boat (click here) that has within its design holes in the hull that will sink the vessel as it enters the water. Imagine an aircraft company building a plane that has wings that fall off once 20-mile-per-hour winds come into play as it attempts to leave the runway. Stupid, right?
So imagine a group of Republican legislators coin-operated by the many propaganda arms and billions of dollars from the Koch Brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), DC Beltway rat Grover Norquist, the Carlyle Group and others trying to push through certainly unconstitutional, environmentally careless mining deregulation legislation doomed to be in costly litigation for years before the first digging the proposed largest open-pit iron-ore mine in the world.
It’s bound to make lots of lawyers very happy and the pricey kickbacks for the Republicans who support the legislation will keep them primed for more extremist legislation down the political road. Getting rid of many historic environmental mining standards involving wetlands, groundwater, rock disposal that even moderate Republicans in the past supported is so easy when the current Republicans are bought and paid for....
No, there is no basic for the accusations of corruption within the Scott Walker governance of Wisconsin.
Really?
I have to admit, Walker is quick on his feet, but, when it comes to moral governance and protecting the people from exploitation at the cost of their health he gets an "F-".
