Great Lakes: resource at risk.(Focus)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

For centuries the Great Lakes have been treated callously. These five magnificent lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario--located along the eastern half of the Canadian-U.S. border have served as a virtual sewer catching waste from industry, agriculture, commercial shipping, and households. Their natural barriers to other water systems have been breached, exposing indigenous ecosystems to aggressive invaders. They've been used as a highway for colossal ships that require deepened and broadened channels to crisscross the lakes, and that import exotic species along with ...

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