Now at 4 30. How soon until the city of waukesha will be able to take its water from Lake Michigan. Waukesha is pressing ahead with plans to eventually get its water from Lake Michigan. The city says its curren supply is unsustainable. Because waukesha sits outside the great lakes basin. It needed and won approval from great lakes states and provinces. Pete zervakis explains on right now. The plan to pump Lake Michigan water to waukesha calls for the city to buy that water from oak creek. The two sides hoped to reach a deal on on the price by the end of this month. But because final approval of waukeshas plan from the great lakes states and provinces didnt come until this summer. The negotiations will likely be extended six more months. Were hopeful well have those contract negotiations complete Water Utility says. Once an agreement is in place. It can start planning a route for piping water from oak creek to waukesha. And sending the same amount in treated wastewater back into Lake Mi