Tag Archive: Great Lakes Compact

Apr 07

When Sharing is Not Caring

Water water everywhere, but not a drop to spare say these 8 states: We’ve always been taught to share. But the eight Great Lakes states have a legal pact that limits the sharing of their most valuable resource: water. Molly Flanagan of the Alliance for the Great Lakes states, “Even though there’s a lot of water …

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Jul 27

Eight States, One Mission for Our Water

Great Lakes states team up to protect water resources for the win—listen up: Let’s get together and…manage our region’s water In the late nineties, a company wanted to ship water from Lake Superior all the way to Asia. That got people in the Great Lakes thinking about the value of the abundance in our own …

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