Full Text of SR0190 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located | 3 | | entirely in the United States; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, When measured by water surface, Lake Michigan is | 5 | | the third largest of the Great Lakes; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Lake Michigan is the second largest of the Great | 7 | | Lakes by volume; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Approximately 12 million people live along Lake | 9 | | Michigan's shore, including the 2.7 million residents of the | 10 | | City of Chicago; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Lake Michigan serves as a source of drinking | 12 | | water, as a place for swimming and fishing, and as a scenic | 13 | | wonderland; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Lake Michigan is a magnificent resource that | 15 | | provides an essential home for all kinds of wildlife; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, In 2008, Illinois, along with Indiana, Michigan, | 17 | | Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin adopted | 18 | | a compact banning diversions without concurrence of all | 19 | | signatories, which President George W. Bush signed; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Diverting water from Lake Michigan out of the | 2 | | Great Lakes Basin would be exorbitant in cost, inefficient, and | 3 | | dangerous; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The declining water levels could negatively | 5 | | impact industries such as commercial shipping, hydroelectric | 6 | | power generation, and recreational boating and fishing, which | 7 | | would hinder the economic growth of the region; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The Great Lakes are large bodies of water that | 9 | | would not replenish easily; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Experts have already seen environmental changes | 11 | | created by the diversion of water; the Great Lakes ice cover | 12 | | has been decreasing, while air and water temperatures have been | 13 | | rising, which clearly illustrates global climate change in the | 14 | | region; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Removing water from this vital body of water sets | 16 | | a bad precedent for the protection of this finite resource and | 17 | | will put a strain on its water supply; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 19 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we adamantly oppose any | 20 | | effort to divert water from Lake Michigan, or the other Great |
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| 1 | | Lakes, to outside of the Great Lakes Basin; and be it further
| 2 | | RESOLVED, That we strongly support the Great Lakes Basin | 3 | | Compact.
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