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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Topsoil runoff from farm, central Iowa (2011). Water pollution in the United States is a growing problem that became critical in the 19th century with the development of mechanized agriculture, mining, and manufacturing industries—although laws and regulations introduced in the late 20th century have improved water quality in many water bodies. [1]
A cleanup plan, required by federal law after documenting high pollution levels, calls for a 63% reduction in lead at the monitoring site between Boyden Arbor and Rockyford lakes.
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.
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