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President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the signing ceremony for the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in 1972. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada more specifically defines Areas of Concern as "geographic areas that fail to meet the general or specific objectives of the agreement where such failure has caused or is likely to ...
A map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta); Michigan (cyan); Huron (green); Erie (yellow); Ontario (red). Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin. As a chain of lakes and rivers, they ...
Map of the shipwrecks in the Great Storm of 1913. The Great Lakes, ... considered one of the greatest pollution risks on the Great Lakes. Discovered in 2015.
The U.S. and Canada failed the Great Lakes by becoming complacent too soon after the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement's early success. Toxic pollution in the Great Lakes remains a colossal ...
A new report from the Alliance for the Great Lakes looks at contents of trash collected by the Adopt-a-Beach program. Report: Great Lakes beaches, including Presque Isle, suffering from plastic ...
Lake Ontario is the most downstream lake of the Great Lakes, so the pollution from all the other lakes flows into it. Lake Ontario was ranked as the most environmentally stressed amongst the five Great Lakes in a 2015 ecological study.
Pollution of the Great Lakes, the world's biggest bodies of fresh water, [20] continue to be a significant problem for both Canada and the United States. According to Derek Stack, executive director of Great Lakes United, "High pollution levels in the Great Lakes basin continue to take an apparent toll on the air and water quality of the ...
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control says lead pollution has been documented at a sampling site just upstream from Rockyford Lake, a waterbody above other residential lakes in ...