Conservation groups call on Great Lakes governors to veto water diversion proposal →

Michigan Live Radio, March 14, 2016
Author: Rebecca Kruth

More than 40 conservation groups across the Great Lakes are urging the region's eight governors to veto a proposal to divert water from Lake Michigan.

Waukesha, Wisconsin wants to build a pipeline to the Great Lakes, because its groundwater supply is contaminated with radium.

The federal government has ordered the city to find a new source of drinking water by 2018.