GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Uses http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-02-09T07:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-02-08T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/83679927.html The decision on whether Waukesha should receive water should be based on what's best for the environment and for the health of citizens throughout the region. Other agendas, such as, using water to try to stop growth by the City of Waukesha, should not be part of the equation. text/html 2010-02-03T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.pioneerlocal.com/lakezurich/news/2024718,lake-zurich-lakemichigan-020410-s1.article Officials from Lake Zurich and 10 other communities met with Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials recently in a series of preliminary hearings over whether the communities can run a pipeline to tap Lake Michigan drinking water. text/html 2010-02-03T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/ct-x-n-0203-water-report-20100202,0,6648914.story A new report for the first time takes a comprehensive look at water use in the 11 counties of northeastern Illinois and urges aggressive conservation to make sure there is enough to go around in coming decades. text/html 2010-02-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2010/02/01/waukesha-ties-water-deal-to-developments/ Environmental groups are suspicious of the development projections Waukesha, Wis., is using to justify its request for Lake Michigan water. text/html 2010-01-29T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/83001697.html Waukesha could become the first community entirely outside the Great Lakes drainage basin to request a diversion of water under terms of a 2008 Great Lakes protection compact. Waukesha must show it lacks an adequate supply of safe drinking water. text/html 2010-01-28T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/82859802.html Using Underwood Creek would allow the city to satisfy a requirement in a Great Lakes protection compact that the city return nearly all diverted water back to Lake Michigan. text/html 2010-01-29T08:05:50-04:00 http://binational.net/glwqa_2010_e.html Comments are now being accepted by the Canadian and United States governments on governance issues as input to the binational negotiations to amend the <a href="http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/greatlakes/default.asp?lang=En&n=FD65DFE5-1">Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement</a> (GLWQA). Comments are due by Feb. 14, 2010. text/html 2010-01-27T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36860 An Illinois task force on the Chicago area's long-term water needs issued hundreds of recommendations for businesses and residents to start conserving now to prevent future shortages. text/html 2010-01-14T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lake-michigan-water-warsjan14,0,264777.story In what could be the state's largest collective gulp of Lake Michigan water in nearly two decades, 10 suburbs in Illinois are seeking approval to tap the vast but closely guarded natural resource. text/html 2010-01-13T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/81272192.html City officials later this month will unveil a draft application to pump Lake Michigan water to Waukesha for its residents and businesses.