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| 03/23 - Lax regulations allow invasive species to flourish in Great Lakes: The St. Lawrence Seaway awoke from its annual wintertime slumber Thursday, marking the 47th spring that oceangoing freighters will steam up the artificial waterway into the Great Lakes. | |
| 03/23 - Editorial: Congress must take action: Faced with wave after wave of species invading the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway over the past 50 years, crowding out native species and turning the lakes' natural habitat upside down, Congress and federal agencies have done - nothing. And for that, those agencies and Congress, including members of the Wisconsin delegation, deserve a good kick in the head (figuratively speaking). | |
| 03/23 - Stewards of the land: In an effort to bolster sturgeon populations in the Great Lakes, a Michigan tribe has partnered with a technological company to create four fish-rearing facilities. | |
| 03/22 - Missing in Huron: Bottom feeders: Lake Superior is big, clear and beautiful, yet in terms of fish production it's a near desert compared to the other Great Lakes. | |
| 03/22 - Environment minister dumps on municipalities that unload raw sewage into the ocean: Environment Minister Rona Ambrose says municipalities that dump raw sewage in the ocean are placing public health at risk. Interviewed by telephone Wednesday from Mexico City, where she is attending the World Water Forum, Ambrose said 19 Canadian municipalities continue to dump raw sewage into the sea, including Halifax, St. John’s, N.L., Saint John, N.B., and Victoria. | |
| 03/22 - Proposed rules: State regulators want to tighten rules that allow for grooming of Saginaw Bay beaches. They say new restrictions should be imposed on clearing vegetation from Great Lakes shorelines because the practice alters water chemistry and damages fish habitat. | |
| 03/21 - Minntac eyes St. Louis River: Officials of U.S. Steel'sMinntac operations are drafting a plan to pump 7.2 million gallons of water every day out of its taconite tailings basin into the St. Louis River. | |
| 03/21 - Water Day: Twenty liters of water is about what one person can carry. It is also the amount the World Water Council considers the minimum needed for daily human existence, including drinking, washing and cooking. So perhaps it's no coincidence that the largest containers allowed for use exporting water from Michigan are been fixed by law at 20 liters or 5.7 gallons, which is slightly bigger. | |
| 03/21 - Editorial: Preserving our water supply: It has been said water will become the oil of the 21st century. We think that undervalues water: It sustains life; oil does not. With today marking World Water Day, it would be nice to report that all is well with this invaluable resource. Clearly, it isn't. | |
| 03/20 - Water, water everywhere: A Toronto Star editorial recently called a frightening irony to our attention. On the same day a United Nations report warned that more than a billion people worldwide face growing shortages of water, American scientists announced they found evidence of water on Enceladus, a far-off moon of Saturn. | |
| 03/20 - Water Issue Key: Doer Aims to Convince Harper to Push U.S: Manitoba Premier Gary Doer is hoping to convince Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the seriousness of the pollution threat posed by a new water diversion project in North Dakota. | |
| 03/20 - Coping with less money for cleanup: It's not surprising that the governors, members of Congress, mayors and environmental activists who put together an ambitious Great Lakes restoration plan are upset at the likelihood that there will be less federal money, not more, to clean up North America's biggest reservoir of fresh water. | |
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