Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: Lee BottsPublisher: Dave Dempsey Environmental
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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
Interim Report Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, January 28, 1981
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Report to ...
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Advice to Governments on Their Review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Today, however, other concepts need to be incorporated into the Agreement so that it can facilitate contemporary efforts to protect and restore The purpose of the Agreement is to "restore and the water quality of the Great Lakes system and maintain" the water quality of the Great Lakes. [...] The following are four areas the Commission to the development of the Agreement in the 1970s suggests be considered for the purpose and scope and its amendment in 1987:. [...] For purposes of the Agreement, the Commission However, the Commission believes firmly that is of the view that a definition of the ecosystem adopting the ecosystem approach should not lead approach should be developed that is appropriate to to broadening the purpose of the Agreement. [...] This the objectives of the Agreement and the conditions means that the scope of the new Agreement - that in the basin. [...] Because the Commission basinwide consultations conducted by is recommending that the Agreement be endorsed the Commission, of the triennial progress by the U. S. Congress and the Parliament of reports under the Binational Action Plan, Canada, it is of the view that its role should be set out in a formal reference pursuant to Article IX of and (b) the Commission's independent the Boundary Waters Tr.
Oversight of U.S. Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Implementation of the United States/Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and OversightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Environmental Quality
Author: Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1995
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description