The Great Lakes Water Wars
Peter AnninJournalist Peter Annin delves deeply into the fraught history of water use in the Great Lakes region & recaps the story of the Chicago River diversion, which reversed the flow of the river, fundamentally transforming the Great Lakes ecosystem. A century later it remains “the poster child of bad behavior in the Great Lakes.”
Today, with growing communities & a warming climate, tensions over water use are high, & controversies on the perimeter of the Great Lakes Basin are on the rise. In this new & expanded edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars, Annin shares the stories of New Berlin & Waukesha, 2 Wisconsin communities straddling the Basin boundary whose recent legal battles have tested the legislative strength of the newly signed Compact. Annin devotes a new chapter to the volatile issue of the invasive Asian carp—a voracious species that reproduces at a disturbing rate—which is transforming the ecology of the river as it makes its way through the Chicago River diversion & ever closer to Lake Michigan.
With 3 new chapters & significant revisions to existing chapters that bring the story up-to-date over the past decade, this is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the people & stories behind hard-fou