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03/29 - Climate change can mess up outdoor sports: It's about eight miles north from the bottom of the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay to Marion Island, and for decades that stretch of water froze almost every winter. We know that because a record of the first freeze-up and first ice-out has been kept for 155 years, ever since 1851.

03/29 - Vrakas to outline water plan for county: Waukesha County's executive plans to announce a countywide water-conservation initiative today to cut down on water use, and possibly help thirsty communities pursue major new sources of water, including Lake Michigan and pristine groundwater in the county's western areas.

03/29 - Bay Harbor contamination: More work ahead: Citizens at a Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council forum Thursday got past, present and future perspectives of the shoreline contamination issues along the Bay Harbor corridor from those working to address it.

03/28 - Water protectors call for ban on popular fertilizers: Muskegon County homeowners who demand lush green lawns may soon be required to use different fertilizers to nurture their grass.

03/28 - Developers all wet in Supreme Court case: Suppose a neighbor announced that he wanted to cut down a tree in your yard. Now suppose you went to court to protect your tree, and the judge ruled that your neighbor couldn't cut down the tree, but it was OK if he poisoned its roots. That's essentially what a coalition of developers and landowners want the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in a wetlands case now before the court.

03/28 - State pollution fund is dwindling: A program to clean up pollution and redevelop property in Michigan is running low on cash. The Clean Michigan Initiative has helped renovate old industrial sites, protect water supplies and improve parks for nearly a decade. But state officials say there's not enough money to add new sites to the project list in the upcoming budget year and work may have to slow down on jobs that already have begun.

03/27 - Coastal growth spells disaster: More disasters of Hurricane Katrina-proportions are certain because the United States has no policy to control growth in danger zones at the water's edge. In a single generation, a slow-moving crisis has developed as land along the nation's fragile coasts has been gobbled up, concentrating wealth at the shore and putting at risk millions of people and property valued in the billions.

03/27 - Research may have uncovered key to species survival in Lake Michigan: A doughnut- shaped area of newly discovered plant life that covers much of Lake Michigan's southern basin may hold the key to the survival of many species in the lake, a researcher says.

03/27 - Analysis: Sewage a major polluter of water here: Sewage is a major source of water pollution in Western New York, according to a new analysis of federal data which revealed that most local treatment plants have released pollution into lakes and rivers in recent years.

03/26 - Polluting fines too low, report says: More than 60 percent of the nation's biggest factories and sewage plants have violated the Clean Water Act by spewing pollution into the nation's rivers, lakes and bays, according to a report released this week.

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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