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Author | : Peter Annin |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 159726637X |
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Water levels |
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Author | : Lee Botts |
Publisher | : Dave Dempsey Environmental |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Water quality concerns are not new to the Great Lakes. They emerged early in the 20th century, in 1909, and matured in 1972 and 1978. They remain a prominent part of today's conflicted politics and advancing industrial growth. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, became a model to the world for environmental management across an international boundary. Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement recounts this historic binational relationship, an agreement intended to protect the fragile Great Lakes. One strength of the agreement is its flexibility, which includes a requirement for periodic review that allows modification as problems are solved, conditions change, or scientific research reveals new problems. The first progress was made in the 1970s in the area of eutrophication, the process by which lakes gradually age, which normally takes thousands of years to progress, but is accelerated by modern water pollution. The binational agreement led to the successful lowering of phosphorus levels that saved Lake Erie and prevented accelerated eutrophication in the rest of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Another major success at the time was the identification and lowering of the levels of toxic contaminants that cause major threats to human and wildlife health, from accumulating PCBs and other persistent organic pollutants
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Water levels |
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Author | : Dan Egan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393246442 |
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
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Author | : International Great Lakes Levels Board |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Water levels |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Water levels |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Water levels |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
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