Wisconsin Public Television Great Lakes Legacy: An In Wisconsin Special This week, the "In Wisconsin" special "Great Lakes Legacy" airs Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m. and repeats Sunday, July 1, at noon, and Sunday at 11:30 am on WMVS in Milwaukee. The Great Lakes are a source of beauty, pleasure, sport and commerce. And they're irreplaceable. The Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh water on our planet, and make up 20% of the fresh surface water in the entire world. That fresh water is precious in our increasingly water-poor planet. Now more than ever, the economic and environmental value of the lakes is being recognized. And tough management decisions are being made that will satisfy some - and be unpopular with others. The way we choose to manage this valuable aquatic resource today, affects its future, our future-and creates a Great Lakes Legacy. Great Lakes Compact Reporter Art Hackett takes us to Waukesha to find out how that city hopes to divert water from Lake Michigan to solve its water shortage problem. Quagga Mussels Reporter Liz Koerner travels out onto Lake Michigan to meet an invasive aquatic species called the quagga mussel. Biofouling Reporter Andy Soth introduces another pair of scientists - a pair that may have found a way to discourage invasive species from hitching a ride into the Great Lakes. Apostle Islands Management Reporter JoAnne Garrett heads to the northernmost tip of Wisconsin and into the waters of Lake Superior, to our state's only National Park - the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The Great Lakes Legacy special features stories produced in a partnership between Wisconsin Public Television and the Biodiversity Project, with financial support from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.greatlakesforever.com/html/wpt/index.htm http://www.wpt.org/inwisconsin/greatlakes/index.cfm http://coastal.wisconsin.gov
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