Governor Gretchen Whitmer is a lifelong Michigander. She is a lawyer, an educator, former prosecutor, State Representative and Senator. She was the first woman to lead a Senate caucus. But the most important title she boasts is MOM. Governor Whitmer was elected to the House of Representatives in 2000 and elected to the Michigan State Senate in 2006 where she served as the Senate Democratic Leader.
Water defines every aspect of Michiganders’ way of life – from how we work to how we play, and from what we eat to what we drink. Ensuring long-term sustainability of our water is critical to our economy and our quality of life.
The Great Lakes are one of the most important natural resources on Earth. They contain 20 percent of the world’s freshwater – supplying water to Michigan’s 11,000 inland lakes and 76,000 miles of inland rivers – and they sustain a wide variety of fish and wildlife species.
We need to get to work to and clean up our drinking water, conserve our natural resources, improve our outdoor quality of life, and grow our blue economy. That plan must deliver: