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Lake Michigan to Foxconn @ 7 million gallons a day.

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OpEd.

The Great Lakes — five inland seas holding one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth — are vast, but they are not limitless. So it is alarming that Wisconsin intends to send water out of the basin not because public health demands it but because a private company wants it. This cuts against the understanding of the lakes as a public trust and, in an era of nationwide water insecurity, sets a dangerous precedent.

Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, is building a plant to make LCD screens in Mount Pleasant, Wis. The state that landed Foxconn with environmental waivers and about $4 billion in incentives decided that it was fine for it to have Great Lakes water, too. In 2018, Wisconsin granted a permit for Racine and Foxconn to use 7 million gallons a day from Lake Michigan, taking it outside the area where water naturally returns to the Great Lakes watershed.

The diversion sidesteps a key piece of water policy that is commonly called the Great Lakes Compact.
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R&P ahead!!!!!
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Well, if Wisconsin sell Lake Michigan then maybe Illinois have a point about not caring about Asian Carp and Trump has a point about cutting funding to preserving and restoring the Great Lakes from pollution.

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LM was ahead of the curve on this one.
LordMortis wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:56 pm https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/201 ... 071211001/

Who needs the EPA or the people whose jobs it was to keep the Great Lakes clean anyway. Ryan and Walker get jobs and Trump gets employment numbers.
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Why do they need so much water? Making icebergs and selling them to greenland?
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Re: Lake Michigan to Foxconn @ 7 million gallons a day.

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Drain Lake Michigan? Do we really need that hyperbole?

If they use the full 7 million gallons a day, that would be using about .0002% of the lake per year. So, assuming no water replenishes the lake, it will be drained in 500,000 years.

I'm sure the bigger environmental impact will be from the waste products of making LCD's or even the carbon footprint of the plant.
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The local news has numbers as well.
According to the application just approved by the DNR, 5.8 million gallons of that would flow to the Foxconn plant. Of that water, some 2.7 million gallons a day would not be returned to the lake. It would be lost in the manufacturing process, primarily through evaporation.

According to the DNR, that 2.7 million gallons a day represents 200 millionths of one percent of the total water volume of Lake Michigan. In other words, the Foxconn plant could run at full tilt for 13,000 years, before draining one percent of the water from the lake.

Checking some other major Lake Michigan water users, Milwaukee Water Works reports in 2017 Miller Brewing was the top industrial user on its system, taking about 1.1 million gallons of water daily. Much of that is trucked out of the Great Lakes Basin as barrels, bottles, and cans.

The City of Chicago draws nearly 1 billion gallons of water every day from the lake, but replaces little. Treated sewage does not return to Lake Michigan. It heads west, outside of the Great Lakes Basin.
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