More Relics From Waukesha's Watery Past

There was a time that Waukesha had dozens of springs and water bottling operations, a far cry from today's realities of dried up springs, overdrawn wells and impending applications to pipe in replacement water from Lake Michigan

A developer has found a supply of old bottles from that era; today, bottled water usually comes by the truck load from Michigan, and as for "springs" in Waukesha, the best known is the Country Springs Hotel and conference center west of the city on I-94, complete with water park.