Chicago suburbs, running out of water, will tap Lake Michigan; Rachel Havrelock, English & Director of The Freshwater Lab comments
As Joliet's water shortages become more serious, the need to join forces to find solutions and make changes is ever more urgent. Read what Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor of UIC Department of English and director of Freshwater Lab at UIC expert opinion:
“The truth of the matter is, with the shifting water geography, regions of relative abundance also have to get into reuse and conservation and new technologies,” Rachel Havrelock, the report’s co-author and director of The Freshwater Lab, told Circle of Blue. “We can’t just build the infrastructure as places are in the midst of a crisis. Anticipating it and building in advance to stave off massive crisis is equally important.”
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