Full Text of SR0473 102nd 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, | 18 | | adopted a compact banning diversions without concurrence of | 19 | | all signatories, which President George W. Bush signed; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The declining water levels could negatively | 2 | | impact industries such as commercial shipping, hydroelectric | 3 | | power generation, and recreational boating and fishing, which | 4 | | in turn would hinder the economic growth of the region; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The Great Lakes are large bodies of water that | 6 | | would not replenish easily; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Experts have already seen environmental changes | 8 | | created by the diversion of water; the Great Lakes ice cover | 9 | | has been decreasing while air and water temperatures have been | 10 | | rising, which clearly illustrates global climate change in the | 11 | | region; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Removing water from this vital body of water sets | 13 | | a bad precedent for the protection of this finite resource and | 14 | | will put a strain on its water supply; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we strongly support | 17 | | the Great Lakes Basin Compact and adamantly oppose any effort | 18 | | to divert water from Lake Michigan, or the other Great Lakes, | 19 | | to the southwestern states.
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