Waukesha's water request gets look from Great Lakes states, provinces

<> Waukesha's water request gets look from Great Lakes states, provinces - Waukesha is the first community in the United States located entirely outside the Great Lakes basin to ask for a diversion of water under a 2008 federal law known as the Great Lakes protection compact. The city is about 1.5 miles west of the subcontinental divide marking the basin boundary.