Geography 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lake Ontario, Adaptive Management, Safe Drinking Water Act
17 Dec 2016
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Great lakes and st lawrence river have been a backbone of a thriving ecosystem for a long time now: last couple of centuries however have seen a steady decline in the environmental quality. Over 90% of pre-settlement wetlands have been lost along the lake huron/erie corridor because of agricultural and urban development. Water levels are dropping: resulting in further loss of wetlands and exposure of contaminated sites on the lake bed. Twe(cid:374)ty (cid:862)great lake (cid:272)ities(cid:863: dump over 90 billion litres of untreated sewage into the great lakes and. St lawrence river: facilities located there dump over 1 billion kilograms of pollutants into the air. Governments were making progressions: but those progressions are slowly backsliding, previous accomplishments are fading. Lacking of a strong commitment from the canadian government. Growing commitment from the american one: 60 million dollars from canada, 20 billion dollars from the us. Eight key priorities according to this blueprint article.
