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What's New COMMENTARY: Fracking gets its own "Occupy" movement CBS News (1/23) While most anti-fracking activists have been responding to harms already done, New York State’s resistance has been waging a battle to keep harm at bay. Dayton bonding plan includes water pipe for Lutsen Duluth News Tribune (1/18) Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton released a $903 million state-funded construction plan Tuesday that includes money for a water-pumping system for Lutsen ski resort and its neighbors, and another chunk for a transit hub in downtown Duluth. New program to protect water quality; details to be worked out Minnesota Public Radio (1/17) Top officials from the Obama administration came to Minnesota Tuesday to announce a new program to encourage farmers to do more to protect water quality. Water protection plan to cover 'significant' threats Brockville Recorder and Times (1/11) Proposed measures to protect the region's source water won't be as restrictive as some city councillors feared, an official with the committee drafting those rules said Tuesday. Group predicts Great Lakes Compact conflict Ashland Current (12/14) The Assembly Mining Bill unveiled late last week would create new standards for permitting high-capacity wells that would likely create a conflict with the Great Lakes Compact, says a Wisconsin environmental organization. Anti-fracking advocates send NY water to Pa. town Wall Street Journal (12/6) Advocates who want to keep the natural-gas drilling industry out of New York state are sending clean water to a northeastern Pennsylvania village. About a dozen households in Dimock, Pa., have been scrambling after a gas driller blamed for polluting the aquifer halted daily water deliveries.
General Resources A Primer on Fresh Water Environment Canada Designed for educators, communities and organizations in a position to develop learning resources to enable Canadians to better understand their environment. An Advocate's Field Guide to Protecting Lake Michigan Alliance for the Great Lakes After two years of research by organizations around Lake Michigan, this guidebook identifies basinwide threats; it is organized into three chapters: habitat restoration, toxic elimination and land and water conservation. Drought Fact Sheets Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Water saving tips for different industries. Michigan Water Use Reporting Program Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Michigan and the other states and provinces in the Great Lakes Region have enacted laws that require major water users to report water withdrawals made within the Great Lakes Basin. This information provides an environmental baseline for managing water resources in a more integrated manner and strengthens the legal basis for opposing unwarranted diversions of Great Lakes water to other regions of the country. Properties of Water Environment Canada's Freshwater Web The Great Lakes Charter: Principles for the Management of Great Lakes Water Resources Council of Great Lakes Governors Water Use in Canada Environment Canada's Freshwater Web
Databases Water databases and tools in Canada Environment Canada's Freshwater Web
Management The Management of Water in Canada Environment Canada's Freshwater Web Includes information about bulk water removal and export, floods, water conservation, modeling and more. Water Supply Management Options for Northeastern Illinois University of Illinois at Chicago A report offering critical information about the Chicago metro region's water supply resources, the legal and institutional framework for Great Lakes diversion, and unique primary research materials, such as the Great Lakes Mediation Memorandum of Understanding between Illinois and the other Great Lakes states. Water Sustainability Canadian Environmental Law Association CELA conducts extensive work on issues of water quality and quantity in the Great Lakes and beyond. View their collections of detailed and summary materials on diverse issues of water quality, quantity, management and protection.
Related Resources GLIN: Agencies and Organizations, Water GLIN: Environmental Research in the Great Lakes Region GLIN: Local Planning in the Great Lakes Region GLIN: Watersheds in the Great Lakes Region
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