Permission Granted To Wisconsin To City To Tap Into Lake Michigan

All eight Great Lakes States have voted to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, unprecedented access to Lake Michigan as its drinking water source.

City officials there say their water is contaminated with radium, and therefore, requested to draw water from the lake.

Waukeshaw needed unanimous approval because, at 17 miles from Lake Michigan, it falls just outside the Great Lakes watershed boundary.

The city of 70,000 needed the unanimous approval because of a regional compact designed to prevent water raids from afar.