Wisconsin GOP legislators look to hamstring Great Lakes Compact

The Great Lakes Compact is an ambitious, if not improbable, proposition: Eight states set out to ratify a single governing agreement designed to ensure water quality and conservation of resources within the Great Lakes Basin, which comprises roughly 22 percent of the world’s fresh surface water.

Seven years in the making, the compact was first adopted by Minnesota early last year, followed by Illinois, New York and Indiana. The governments of Ontario and Qu