Editors note: This story first appeared in Great Lakes Echo, a project of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental JournalismWisconsin and New York water users are crafting water permitting rules.
A law that’s designed to prevent other parts of the country and the world from draining the Great Lakes is getting its first big test in our own backyard.The water-use compact is part of an agreement between eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces to figure out who can have Great Lakes w
