Mayors Fear Proposed Changes Will Weaken Multi-State Agreement
Great Lakes mayors in the U.S. and Canada said they want to slow down proposed changes to rules guiding water withdrawals from the Great Lakes. They fear the alterations will weaken a multi-state agreement that oversees the use of the lakes’ water supply.
In 2008, governors in eight states passed the Great Lakes Compact to protect the Great Lakes from the threat of water diversions outside the basin. A council that oversees the compact is set to adopt changes to the review of proposed withdrawals and administrative appeals of council decisions...
Ken Notes: What will mess this up is politics. We need environmental research and expertise working with business, communities, and agriculture to develop workable cost effective standards and practices that actually have a measurable positive impact. I fear mandates, penalties, and exceptions that have no actual positive outcome -- which is how we got to where we are now.
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