You can easily modify and send our recommend comments here. What’s Happening The City of Racine has requested that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approve a water diversion of 7 million gallons a day from Lake Michigan for use at Foxconn. The Great Lakes Compact (an eight-state agreement in place to manage water […]
Read MoreEach day, 4.8 million bottles of water leave Nestlé’s packaging plant in Stanwood, Michigan and end up neatly stacked one-by-one in gas station coolers across the Midwest. If you’ve sipped from an Ice Mountain-branded bottle in the last decade, you’ve sampled a tiny fraction of the 3.4 billion gallons that’s been pumped from nine wells […]
Read MoreThis week: an update on the Waukesha diversion + Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal advances + innovations solutions for Lake Erie + ways you can make a difference. PROCESS TO DIVERT GREAT LAKES WATER UNDER REVIEW Last year, hundreds of Freshwater Future supporters like you spoke out against a proposal to divert water from Lake Michigan to […]
Read MoreLast Wednesday, almost 500 concerned citizens turned out for a public hearing on the Nestlé Waters proposal to more than double the amount of water being pumped from their White Pine Springs well in Michigan’s Osceola Township. Among them was a group of 30 water advocates from Flint, Michigan who traveled 150 miles to participate in […]
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