Indiana

Indiana slowly ponders Great Lakes pact
Administration officials will not seek legislative approval until 2008 for a Great Lakes compact signed last year by Gov. Mitch Daniels and under active consideration by other Great Lakes lawmakers. Kyle Hupfer, director of the Department of Natural Resources, said the delay will give Indiana lawmakers and stakeholders time to massage the compact and to craft companion legislation that guides the compact's implementation. The compact essentially bans water diversions from the Great Lakes basin to other parts of the world, including the non-basin portions of Great Lakes states and Canadian provinces.

Local control of water best, official says
For the town to continue pumping Lake Michigan water after June would be more costly and complicated than implied in comments by the town's public works director, Town Council President Michael Fryzel said Tuesday.

Indianapolis Opts to Control its Water
2/12/2003 - For 131 years, Indianapolis Water Company, a private utility, owned the water that flowed from the taps of the city's 1.6 million residents. Except for a summertime blue-green algae problem that fouled the water in parts of the city, the water was pretty good. But in 2000, the company's parent, NiSource, decided to sell Indianapolis Water, giving city officials the chance to take control of the city's life blood. "We wanted to protect our most precious resource," said city attorney Rober... 

State told to clamp down on water pollution from livestock feedlots
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that if the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (DEM) fails to strengthen its oversight of livestock feedlots — a major water polluter in the state — it could lose federal authorization to regulate discharges into state waterways.

Local water bottler Cameron Springs sold to Perrier Group
Perrier Group of America has swallowed locally based Cameron Springs, just as the "official bottled water of the Indiana Pacers" gets its first douse of NBA championship exposure.