Center for Water Policy Assistant Director Tressie Kamp was featured in a “Door County Knock” article about the fate of the abandoned Donny S. tugboat, increasingly entrenched in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, after remaining unmoved since fall 2021. Law enforcement issued the owner of the tug citations totaling tens of thousands of dollars, but …
Water Policy and Science Communications Graduate Student Research Fellowship 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 …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was quoted in a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article examining a municipal court trial about whether people have the right to walk along Lake Michigan’s shoreline …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was quoted in a recent WUWM story about public access to Wisconsin’s Great Lakes beaches. In summer 2025, the Village of Shorewood police issued resident Paul …
The Great Lakes Compact is designed to protect surface and groundwater across the Basin, but it does not require direct reporting of water used by data centers that hook up to municipal systems—leaving a disclosure gap as the industry rapidly …
Center for Water Policy Assistant Director Tressie Kamp was featured in a “Circle of Blue” article on wetlands and the 2025 1,000-year flood in Milwaukee, WI. The article examines how wetlands, “nature’s kidneys,” mitigate flood-related property damage after heavy rain events. The article also highlights wetland restoration sites around southeastern Wisconsin …
Last weekend, Dan Egan, Center for Water Policy journalist in residence, traveled to Canandaigua, NY to speak to residents of the finger lakes about the threats facing fresh water. Egan’s talk focused on phosphorus and toxic algal blooms, which are …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent Down To Earth article exploring the hidden environmental costs of India’s rapidly expanding data center industry, particularly its massive and often …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent Straight Arrow News article about data centers’ water and energy consumption, and how they impact local communities. In the article, Professor Scanlan contextualized the growth of the data …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent Wisconsin Examiner article examining the rapid growth of large-scale data centers across Wisconsin and their implications for the state’s water and …
