Ohio Poised To Approve Great Lakes Compact
From the Columbus Dispatch:
“State legislators are poised today to approve a $1.3 billion construction budget and a multistate compact designed to protect Great Lakes water from being siphoned to dry states in the South and West.
“A joint conference committee worked out differences between the House and Senate and unanimously approved the two-year construction budget, which provides more than $18 million for projects in Franklin County and includes provisions to help fill a projected $733 million operating-budget shortfall next year…
“Also yesterday, Democratic and Republican legislative leaders reached a deal on a proposed constitutional amendment that ultimately should lead to Ohio’s ratification of the Great Lakes Compact, in which eight states and two Canadian provinces agree not to divert water outside the region.”
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