Author: United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Great Lakes Region
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Water Pollution Problems of the Great Lakes Area
Author: United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Great Lakes Region
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: Lee Botts
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
Water Pollution Problems and Control Programs in Michigan's Portion of the Great Lakes
Author: Michigan. Water Resources Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Water Pollution Problems of the Great Lakes Area
Author: United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Great Lakes Region
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Water Pollution--Great Lakes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Natural Resources and Power Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Water Pollution Problems of Lake Michigan and Tributaries
Author: United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Great Lakes Region
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Great Lakes Institutions
Author: United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Water Pollution
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Management Programs, Research and Effects of Present Land Use Activities on Water Quality of the Great Lakes
Author: International Reference Group on Great Lakes Pollution from Land Use Activities. Task Group A. United States Section
Publisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Late, Great Lakes
Author: William Ashworth
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318874
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth presents a compelling history of the Great Lakes, from their formation in the Ice Age, to their "discovery" by Samuel de Champlian in 1615, and, finally, to their impending death in our time. Ashworth systematically deals with the wild life that once flourished in the region-beaver, salmon, whitefish, and trout-and describes the threatening elements which have displaced them-the predatory sea lamprey, the alewives, toxic waste, and volatile solids.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318874
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Late, Great Lakes is a powerful indictment of man's carelessness, ignorance, and apathy toward the Great Lakes. With the longest continuous coastline in the United States, they hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply. Author William Ashworth presents a compelling history of the Great Lakes, from their formation in the Ice Age, to their "discovery" by Samuel de Champlian in 1615, and, finally, to their impending death in our time. Ashworth systematically deals with the wild life that once flourished in the region-beaver, salmon, whitefish, and trout-and describes the threatening elements which have displaced them-the predatory sea lamprey, the alewives, toxic waste, and volatile solids.