U.S.A. (729 articles) There are 8 U.S. states in the Great Lakes Basin, but only New York State includes Lake Ontario. Some 30-million Americans live in the Great Lakes, which are home to large cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Land use in the Great Lakes Basin is a mix of rural, urban, and industrial. Historically, water quality on the Great Lakes has been influenced by manufacturing, waste disposal sites, electricity generation, and urbanization.
|  | WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Charles Schumer announced a major step in his push to clean up Lake Ontario’s waters near Rochester’s shore. Currently the New York Department of Environmental Conservation is seeking to create a “no-discharge zone” (NDZ) that would prohibit boats from dumping sewage and other potentially harmful chemicals into the waters offshore, a practice... (more) | | (0 comments) Drink Environmental Law Fish Great Lakes-Basin Swim U.S.A. Waste Management |
|  | New standards governing the cleaning of ballast water in ocean-going freighters, about to be adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard, should help prevent release of non-native species into the Great Lakes and other threatened U.S. waters, such as San Francisco Bay and the Chesapeake Bay.That's the word out of U.S. Rep. Candice Miller's Washington, D.C. office. Miller represents... (more) | | (0 comments) Environmental Law Fish Great Lakes-Basin Shipping, boating & navigation U.S.A. |
| | | In the midst of summer beach season, some Great Lakes states are having to pick which beaches they’ll monitor for contamination with what critics say is an unfair distribution of federal funds.Funding predicted for 2011 indicates that states with more beaches aren’t receiving substantially more funding to monitor them. Conversely, states with very few beaches receive... (more) | | (0 comments) Environmental Law Great Lakes-Basin Swim U.S.A. |
| | | Delaware, New Hampshire and Minnesota have some of the cleanest beaches in the U.S., while a number of beaches in California and the Great Lakes have some of the worst in terms of water quality, according to a new report.Over 170 beaches in 22 states were surveyed in The Natural Resource Defense Council’s annual Testing the Waters report, published in late June.The... (more) | | (0 comments) Great Lakes-Basin Swim U.S.A. |
| | | Quick show of hands: Who wants to go swimming in Lake Michigan?
Well, many of us wouldn’t mind taking a dip once and a while if it wasn’t for the whole, um, beached whale stench. Sadly, our contentious pond’s smelliness isn’t a recent development. One of its first names coined by settlers was “Lake Of The Stinking Water.” But what exactly is that smell? Turns out,... (more) | | (0 comments) Environmental Law Fish Great Lakes-Basin U.S.A. |
| | | Swim Guide began in Toronto, Canada. A team of staff and volunteers at the charity Lake Ontario Waterkeeper set out to answer this simple question: is it safe to swim in Lake Ontario?As it turns out, reliable facts and figures about beach water quality are hard to come by. So we started compiling our own.
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| | | Get instant, up-to-date information for over 800 beaches in Canada and the US with new Swim Guide app. First-of-its-kind app uses 70 government sources to help users source the closest beaches and cleanest waters – and how to get thereTORONTO, ON (June 10, 2011) – For millions of summer beach seekers, finding and enjoying that perfect stretch of sand and water has just... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Canada Great Lakes-Basin Research Swim U.S.A. Waterkeeper's work |
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