Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Water Management in Michigan: Michigan water connections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Ground-water Data for Michigan
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: The Great Lakes Water Wars
Author: Peter AnninPublisher: 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.
U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Ground-water Data for Michigan
Author: Water Resources of the Flint Area, Michigan
Author: Sulo Werner WiitalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: Lee BottsPublisher: Dave Dempsey Environmental
ISBN:
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