Wisconsin joins pact to limit access to water; Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania remain
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BY TIM JONES | Source: Detroit Free Press
NEW BERLIN, Wis. — Piece by piece, a 5,500-mile wall around the Great Lakes is going up. You can’t see it, but construction is progressing nicely, along with an implied neon sign that flashes, “Hands off — it’s our water.”
The legal pilings for a 1,000-mile segment of the wall were sunk Tuesday when Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle finalized his state’s approval of the so-called Great Lakes Compact, a multistate agreement designed to protect and restrict access to nearly 20% of the world’s supply of fresh water, contained in the five Great Lakes.
And after that will come Ohio, where later this week the legislature is expected to make it the sixth state to endorse the water agreement and advance a strong regional warning to chronically dry regions of the South and West that Great Lakes water is staying put.
