Stealing Water from the Lake Michigan Basin

It is my honor to have been asked to serve our state as a member of a Legislative Council Committee that is examining whether or not the fresh water of Lake Michigan should be allowed to be shipped to areas outside of the Great Lakes Basin.

It would seem to me to be a mortal sin to risk the future of the greatest source of fresh water in the world for the purpose of profit, but apparently somebody has enough influence in Madison to have the legislature reexamine this already answered question.

By the way, the folks in Brown County that are going to be the beneficiaries of Manitowoc’s water live in the Lake Michigan basin.

I think it was Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus who said that if someone outside the state of Wisconsin wants our water, tell him or her we sell beer. The governor was a little simple in his summary, but not too far off the mark.