Dear Senator:
We urge you to support S. 878, the Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act, introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Voinovich, which will help ensure the safety of U.S. beaches by enhancing the capacity of local beachwater monitoring and public notification programs, authorizing use of funding for identifying and cleaning up sources of pollution, and improving standards for timely public notification of contaminated beachwaters.
The following opinion piece by Cheryl Nenn was printed in the Journal Sentinel on June 13.
Privatization of public water services has been occurring in the United States with vigor since the early 1990s. In these tough economic times, cities are struggling to pay for escalating costs of repairing aging water systems and attempting to balance their budgets.
In 2007, Milwaukee Riverkeeper (then Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers) successfully nominated the Kinnickinnic River for one of the nation’s Most Endangered Rivers. Our objective was to shed some light and advocate for funding for this river that had been neglected—laced with toxic contamination, lined with concrete, degraded, and ignored over the years.
The Journal Sentinel reports on Waukesha's request for Lake Michigan water:
Waukesha - After nearly five months, environmental groups monitoring the Water Utility's bid for Lake Michigan water should get further details this week on the proposal to annually pipe billions of gallons to this city.
On Jan. 7, six environmental agencies submitted several dozen questions to the utility seeking details of how it plans to replace its well water with water from Lake Michigan.
Milwaukee Riverkeeper and our partners in KPOW (Keep Public Our Water) celebrated today when it was announced that Milwaukee Common Council tabled discussions about privatizing Milwaukee's water.
KPOW, a group of nonprofit organizations and private citizens, spoke out loudly against the sale of Milwaukee's Water Works to a private company. The group believes that water is a resource that belongs to the public, and should not be sold to the highest bidder.
Privatization of public water services has been occurring in the United States with vigor since the early 1990s. In these tough economic times, cities are struggling to pay for escalating costs of repairing aging water systems and attempting to balance their budgets.
Milwaukee Riverkeeper and our partners in KPOW (Keep Public Our Water) celebrated today when it was announced that Milwaukee Common Council tabled discussions about privatizing Milwaukee's water.
