Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Title | Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Botts |
Publisher | Dave Dempsey Environmental |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Nature |
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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
Great Lakes Water Quality Program
Title | Great Lakes Water Quality Program PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Report on Great Lakes Water Quality
Title | Report on Great Lakes Water Quality PDF eBook |
Author | Great Lakes Water Quality Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Water quality |
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A Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Title | A Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Great Lakes National Program Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Great Lakes (North America) |
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Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Program Office, FY 1989-1993
Title | Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Program Office, FY 1989-1993 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Great Lakes National Program Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Water quality management |
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United States Great Lakes Program Report on the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Title | United States Great Lakes Program Report on the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Elster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Federal aid to water quality management |
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Great Lakes Development Program
Title | Great Lakes Development Program PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon E. McCallum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Great Lakes |
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