by Kevin Shafer | Apr 29, 2013 | Videos
Kevin Shafer Executive Director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District discusses ways in which the MMSD saves water and energy at the same time by updated infrastructure and monitoring equipment. Recorded at the Wisconsin Academy’s public forum,...
by Sandra Postel | Apr 9, 2013 | Videos
Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project, discusses local and global water challenges as part of the Wisconsin Academy’s renewed Waters of Wisconsin Initiative. Postel founded the Global Water Policy Project in 1994 witha mission is to promote the...
by Gina LaLiberte | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Unsightly multi-colored algal blooms appeared earlier than usual on lakes across Wisconsin in the summer of 2012. Their premature arrival was induced in part by an exceptionally warm period in March when temperature records were set throughout the state. The...
by Katie Ginther | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A fact-finding research organization, the U.S. Geological Survey is probably best known as the nation’s largest civilian mapping agency. But the USGS is also the nation’s largest water, earth, and biological science agency, with Water Science Centers found in every...