The Great Salt Lake is shrinking – dramatically – and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and others are litigating to get Utah to act as a trustee to stop and reverse the damage. Director Melissa Scanlan weighed in to… Read more
Waukesha recently became the first community outside the Great Lakes Basin to access water from Lake Michigan at a cost of over $250 million. Director Melissa Scanlan emphasized the growing importance of fresh water in the 21st century to Vince… Read more
The Center for Water Policy is seeking candidates for a two-year funded Water Policy and Science Communications Graduate Student Research Fellowship, while earning a master’s degree from the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. To be considered for the Fellowship, the student must… Read more
The Center for Water Policy enters an exciting phase as it welcomes three new staff: Cora Sutherland and Rajpreet Grewal, the third cohort of postdoctoral water policy specialists through the UW Sea Grant Water Science-Policy Fellows Program, alongside the appointment… Read more
The Supreme Court’s Sackett v EPA decision has resulted in a significant reduction in the scope of federal protections for wetlands. Under this ruling, wetlands are now required to exhibit a continuous surface connection to traditional water bodies such as… Read more
The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin hosted a free virtual Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium on October 3rd at noon CT where experts from Canadian and U.S. universities, including Director Melissa Scanlan, discussed the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s decision’s impact on wetlands protections,… Read more
Melissa Scanlan, Director of the Center for Water Policy along with a panel of legal experts, addressed the impact of the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on wetlands protections, scientific research, legal analysis, and policy, including updates on the EPA/Corp… Read more
Director Melissa Scanlan was interviewed by Kirsti Marohn and Minnesota Public Radio to discuss how the Great Lakes Compact can be a model for approaching water management and control among states interested in pursuing a Mississippi River Compact. Dry states taking Mississippi River water… Read more
Community leaders and mayors along the Mississippi River are considering supporting a compact among the river’s 10 states to safeguard this vital resource. “People are aware of how those low levels on the Mississippi River affect commerce and the communities,”… Read more
The School of Freshwater Sciences offers a graduate “Practicum” course. Professor Scanlan designed the practicum to model a water consulting firm with public-sector clients. In Spring 2023, the graduate students donated their time to the City of Milwaukee’s Environmental Collaboration… Read more
