the area’s economy, culture, and environment. This book—and its
associated website, www.greatlakeswaterwars.com—is designed to
help the general public bring the regional water debate into focus.
It attempts to engage the citizen in one of the most important envi-
ronmental issues of our time: the effort to protect the globally sig-
nificant waters of the Great Lakes for the next one hundred years
and beyond.
Peter Annin
Madison, Wisconsin
January, 2006
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