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Great Lakes Daily News: 18 August 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Towns prepare for water crunch
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With Lake County, Ill.'s booming growth expected to eventually strain its limited water supply--even with Lake Michigan nearby--a handful of communities are banding together to ensure that they won't one day be left high and dry. Source: Chicago Tribune (8/18)


Hunters resist DNR's deer illness work
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Wisconsin's 4-year-old strategy that relies on hunters to snuff out chronic wasting disease in the deer population is not likely to work, a new analysis of hunter attitudes shows. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/18)


A skyline filled with sails
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Greeted by people clutching cameras and lining the St. Clair River, the high-masted ships moved slowly into Port Huron, Mich., on Thursday. Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (8/18)


Water conservation law working
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Waukesha, Wis., is on track to consume about 10 percent less water in 2006 than last year, a sign the new conservation law implemented in May has been successful so far. Source: Greater Milwaukee Today (8/18)


Death shows danger of sand
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The death of an 11-year-old boy this week at the Grand Sable Dunes at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore underscores the hidden danger sand can pose. Source: The Detroit News (8/18)


Michigan City scraps dune development plan
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A plan that would have leased a forested dune area along Lake Michigan's beachfront for private development has been rejected by the Michigan City, Ind., city council. Source: The Wabash Plain Dealer (8/18)


Protect Great Lakes with tougher regulations: Ontario minister
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Ontario's natural resources minister has called on the federal government for tighter controls for freighters entering the Great Lakes to help prevent invasive species from entering the water system. Source: CBC News (8/17)


Senators decry veto of funding to remove Kalamazoo River dams
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Two Michigan senators say they are angry that Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed proposed funding that would have been used toward the removal of three aging dams from the Kalamazoo River. Source: Booth Newspapers (8/17)


Bruce Power seeks OK for new nuclear site
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Bruce Power, which runs six Ontario nuclear power units and is refurbishing two more at a complex on the shores of Lake Huron, says it is seeking regulatory approval to prepare a site at the facility for the potential construction of new reactors. Source: Reuters Canada (8/17)


Collaborative project brings art to science
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Science informs art in a collaborative project that looks at what global climate change might mean to the Lake Superior region. Source: Ironwood Daily Globe (8/17)


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