The Great Lakes water wars
Publisher description for The Great Lakes water wars / Peter Annin. The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781429495035, 9781610910774, 9781610919937, 1429495030, 161091077X, 1610919939
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Hope and hopelessness
To have and have not
The Aral experiment
Rising temperatures, falling water?
Aversion to diversion
Battle lines and skirmishes
Reversing a river
Long Lac and Ogoki
Pleasing Pleasant Prairie
Sacrificing Lowell
Tapping Mud Creek
Akron gets the nod
New rules of engagement
The Nova group and Annex 2001
Marching toward a compact
Waukesha worries
Who will win the war?