Author: Peter Annin
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 159726637X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
The Great Lakes Water Wars
Author: Peter Annin
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 159726637X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 159726637X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
Great Lakes for Sale
Author: Dave Dempsey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116495
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Examines the environmental benefits and issues of the Great Lakes through a look at the commercialization, recreation, and population of the businesses and people in its surrounding areas.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116495
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Examines the environmental benefits and issues of the Great Lakes through a look at the commercialization, recreation, and population of the businesses and people in its surrounding areas.
Illinois Waterway-diversion of Water from Lake Michigan. Hearings ... H.J. Res. 148
Author: United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and harbors
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Water Diversion from Lake Michigan
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois Waterway (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Considers H.R. 1 and S. 308, to authorize HEW and Army Corps of Engineers to study the effects of increased water diversion from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway and the effects upon the Great Lakes. Includes "Memorandum for U.S. as Amicus Curiae in the Supreme Court, States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania v State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, On Amended Application of the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York for a Reopening and Amendment of the Decree of Apr. 21, 1930, and the Granting of Further Relief," Oct. Term, 1958 (p. 63-123).
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Category : Illinois Waterway (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Considers H.R. 1 and S. 308, to authorize HEW and Army Corps of Engineers to study the effects of increased water diversion from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway and the effects upon the Great Lakes. Includes "Memorandum for U.S. as Amicus Curiae in the Supreme Court, States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania v State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, On Amended Application of the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York for a Reopening and Amendment of the Decree of Apr. 21, 1930, and the Granting of Further Relief," Oct. Term, 1958 (p. 63-123).
Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Illinois Waterway--diversion of Water from Lake Michigan
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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Category : Calumet River (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Calumet River (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Lake Michigan Water Diversion
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors
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Category : Illinois Waterway (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 85-2. Considers legislation to authorize Illinois and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago to test the effect of increasing the diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway.
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Category : Illinois Waterway (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 85-2. Considers legislation to authorize Illinois and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago to test the effect of increasing the diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Author: Dan Egan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393246442
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393246442
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.
Lake Michigan Water Diversion
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Chicago Drainage Canal
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 83-7. Considers legislation to authorize increased diversion of water from Lake Michigan for the Illinois Waterway.
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Category : Chicago Drainage Canal
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 83-7. Considers legislation to authorize increased diversion of water from Lake Michigan for the Illinois Waterway.