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Nine million people living around Lake Ontario depend on it for drinking water, according to the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. And many of those live in Upstate New York in towns like Oswego, Rochester and Syracuse. Far from going out into […]
Read More →National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Just one year after the Toledo water crisis of August 2014, federal, state and local agencies have stepped up to make sure that cities around Lake Erie’s western basin continue to have access to safe drinking water. Much of assuring […]
Read More →Battelle
New Bedford Harbor is fed by the Acushnet River from the north and drains into the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Its steady flow is one of the reasons so many industrial plants set up shop along the harbor in […]
Read More →Miami University
The Lacawac Sanctuary and Biological Field Station overseen by Miami University’s Center for Aquatic and Watershed Sciences is home to lots of exciting research projects. Its namesake, Lake Lacawac, is part of the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network, an expansive […]
Read More →Southern Illinois Power Cooperative
The Southern Illinois Power Cooperative operates a power plant near Lake of Egypt around the clock to produce energy for its customers. All the activity can stress the plant’s infrastructure, so key to continuing its operations is minimizing that stress […]
Read More →LimnoTech
Keeping an eye on the health of Lake Erie is a big job, involving a lot of agencies, organizations and monitoring equipment. The collective efforts help make the lake one of the best studied in the world, along with the […]
Read More →Bowling Green State University
With Lake Erie’s algal bloom problem persisting in its western basin, state officials and researchers are working to expand monitoring capabilities there. Many of those are supported by networks of buoys that collect readings from advanced sensors measuring water quality. […]
Read More →University of Toledo
In order to protect the millions of people who rely on Lake Erie for drinking water from the threat of harmful algal blooms in its water, nearby universities and state agencies have coordinated monitoring efforts to better predict the presence […]
Read More →University of Wisconsin
The Great Lakes region is a dynamic ecosystem that supports millions of people, plants and animals. Key to maintaining its vitality is making sure the waterways that sit at its base remain clean and healthy. To do that, scientists and […]
Read More →Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
The mission of the Iowa Lakeside Lab is to provide science classes and research opportunities for university students as well as outreach programs and services through Iowa’s state universities. It’s located on West Okoboji Lake, near Little Miller’s Bay in […]
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