Welcome to Marquette University Law School and, more specifically, to the faculty blog. This conference on water law and public policy was a significant contribution to public discussion of an important regional issue. How terrific — not just for us at the Law School but for the region more broadly — that Mike Gousha would put this conference together and that you would report concerning it. — JDK

It seems to me that there are actually two different agendas expressed in the quotes reproduced in the post. The first is making Milwaukee a hub for the development of new water technologies, and I suspect few would disagree with that goal.

The second is attracting industry via the sale of water at reduced rates, or even the outright gift of water per today’s article in the Journal-Sentinel online. That seems more troublesome, although the difficulty is perhaps not insurmountable if certain logical restrictions on quantity and consumption are put in place.

I am curious as to whether this distinction was noted at the conference, and whether the relative merits of the two ideas were debated.