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On 28 April 2018, Wisconsin’s Department of Water Resources (DNR) approved a water diversion application submitted by the City of Racine to increase its annual withdrawals from Lake Michigan by 7 million gallons per day (MGD).
The bulk of this increase (5.8 MGD) will be channeled to Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, where Foxconn Technology Group is building a 1,200 acre LCD screen manufacturing facility.
In this Research Note, Bluefield water experts analyze the impact of Foxconn’s new factory and the company’s water footprint.
