LANSING -- House and Senate leaders announced Monday they've reached a compromise that could lead to passage, by week's end, of historic legislation protecting Michigan's water and the Great Lakes.
The 12-bill package would put Michigan in a compact with seven other Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces to oversee the use of water in the Great Lakes Basin. The five lakes contain 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water, more than 90 percent of that for the United States.
Key measures in the package also would set standards for water use within the state and make Michigan one of the first compact signers to have its own in-state regulations. All Great Lakes states are required, under the compact, to adopt such water use and conservation rules...
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