JS Online: Doyle weighs wider use of lake water

Currently, water from Lake Michigan cannot be diverted west of the subcontinental divide. For those familiar with Milwaukee, this line is drown north to south roughly a few miles west of the Milwaukee County line, meaning suburbs like Waukesha and parts of Brookfield and New Berlin cannot currently access Lake Michigan water.

For this to happen, I think some serious talks must take place between Milwaukee and the interested suburbs. While the suburbs keep demanding more of the city (expanded freeways and access to water being two issues), they haven't been willing to consider what's in the city's interest (minimizing urban sprawl and an improved mass transit network).

Those suburbs with diminished water supplies have nobody to blame but themselves for their water shortages. The writing has been on the wall for a while, and those of us who decry urban sprawl saw this coming.