Among the options they are considering are building a pipeline to Lake Michigan to draw water and optimizing groundwater withdrawals by better spacing of wells. They certainly can't keep going the way they are. Practical Handling of a Finite Resource Kraft continues on the coordination theme. We need to recognize that groundwater and surface water are connected. What we do to one affects the other.
Significant problems exist with interbasin transfer.
Water that isn't used for consumption goes through the sewage treatment plant and is transferred to the Wisconsin River. In this interbasin transfer, millions of gallons of groundwater are effectively removed from the Little Plover basin and recharge the Wisconsin River. Groundwater resources are finite. We need to change policies and how we do things, including how we site wells. It is unwise to put a well right next to a stream, because it can cause the stream to dry out.