Agreement reached about the Great Lakes

On April 3, 2007, the Ontario Government released a backgrounder about the Great Lakes -St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement. Of interest is the agreement about water diversion, notably:

• it provides strong protections for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin waters....
• The provinces and the states have agreed to: ban diversions of water out of {this area} and prohibit new or increased transfer of water from one Great Lake watershed to another unless strictly regulated criteria are met...

For a comprehensive overview of Great Lakes ecological concerns, refer to State of the Great Lakes 2005 document and corresponding reports from the annual SOLEC [State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference] group. Warning! It is a huge .pdf file and takes time to load