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Former U.N. adviser warns on water futures trading, elevates water crisis to level of climate

There were two differing visions on how to deal with the global water crisis at the recent United Nations World Water Conference, according to former U.N. water adviser Maude Barlow.

One, would “treat water as a commodity like oil and gas and put it on the open market for sale,” Barlow said.

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The first piping plover to return to the Great Lakes region this spring has been reported at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, marking the official start of another breeding season for the federally endangered shorebird. Read the full story by MLive.

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The project will reduce energy costs by $2.7 million and cut carbon emissions by 93% over 25 years.

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Michigan’s Magnet Man attracts river trash

This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.

By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya, Great Lakes Echo

Laptops, phones, keys, a drone, a picnic table, a meat slicer, axes, spoons, chairs, a horseshoe, guns and a 90-year-old condom are among the items Michigan’s Magnet Man has fished out of the state’s rivers.

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They encourage contributors to address practical issues with real environmental or social implications, rather than tackling big general or theoretical questions about our relationship to nature.

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Joint Action Plan for Clean Water Infrastructure and Services in the Great Lakes Region: Project Archive

This project has ended. Archived project materials are available below. 

The Great Lakes Commission’s Clean Water Infrastructure and Services Working Group developed a Joint Action Plan for Clean Water Infrastructure and Services in the region that outlines actions to address a backlog in needed upgrades and repairs to water-related infrastructure in the eight Great Lakes states and two provinces over the next 20 years — everything from wastewater treatment plants to stormwater pipes and drinking-water filtration systems. This backlog is conservatively estimated to cost $271 billion, and many experts believe that figure is a significant underestimate. The plan also calls for a better understanding the state of regional water infrastructure and the true needs to achieve a 21st century system.

The Action plan was endorsed by the full Commission at its 2017 Annual Meeting.

• Joint Action Plan

• Appendices

• GLC Resolution 

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As Lake Michigan fisheries managers and stakeholders have approved chinook salmon stocking increases for this year, the latest prey fish assessment shows forage levels remain low historically but with some positive year-over-year changes. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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A roundtable discussion of the water quality of the Western Basin of Lake Erie is scheduled for April 11 at the Maumee Bay State Park convention center in Ohio. The discussion will include thoughts from local officials and activists on the lake’s current condition and factors contributing to harmful algal blooms. Read the full story by The Press.

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This season is an especially great time to scout for Petoskey stones on Lake Michigan shores because the winter ice and waves have moved and shifted the stones, churning up new ones and making them more accessible. Read the full story by MLive.

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The Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program (MIGSP) provides research grants to reduce the impact of invasive species in the state. This year, MIGSP has funded $3.6 million for 35 projects, several with impacts for aquatic invasive species in Southeast Michigan. Read the full story by WDET- Detroit, MI.

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In Ontario, Port Windsor welcomed the first “salty” – or foreign vessel – of the 2023 shipping season last week when the M/V Egbert Wagenborg arrived at arrived at ADM Agri Industries on April 4 to load grain for export. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.

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Over the last few years, Walstrom Marine has been making progress towards its goal of becoming a premium marine operator across the Great Lakes. In November, the company acquired Grand Bay Marine and is now working to merge the companies together. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.

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In Michigan, Chesterfield Township officials are considering the possibility of constructing a new water storage facility in the community. The Chesterfield Township Board of Trustees voted to award engineering services for a water storage feasibility study. Read the full story by The Voice.

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...FOG GREATLY REDUCING THE VISIBILITY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... Light winds, moisture from melting snow, and clear skies overnight allowed fog to form over the northeast corner of Wisconsin. The fog was mainly located from just north of the Green Bay metro area west to Shawano and north to Iron Mountain, Michigan. The fog

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM CDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 5 inches with isolated amounts up to 6 to 7 inches possible. * WHERE...Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Outagamie, and Southern Oconto County Counties.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Weathering the floods: Detroit neighborhood faces uncertain future due to climate change

Across Detroit the effects of climate change are evident. In the Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood on the city’s lower east side, overflowing stormwater drains, contaminated waterways and flooded basements are just a few examples of how the city’s aging infrastructure struggles to keep up with our changing climate.  

The city’s combined sewer system is the crux of the problem.

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Musician Peter Mayer. Submitted photo

I recently attended a concert by Minnesota musician Peter Mayer and another musician. In case you don’t know, Mayer is known for his environmentally themed songs about interconnectedness and the human journey. He has produced 11 albums over 20 years and has received many artist fellowships.

Mayer wrote a song that’s a favorite of mine called “Ocean Mary.” It’s about a woman who “becomes” the ocean from touching a stream near her home. While Mayer didn’t play that song during his recent concert, I found myself thinking about it and wishing someone would write lyrics for a similar song about the Great Lakes.

Gradually, I had the audacity to realize that maybe I could help bring such a song into being if I tweaked the “Ocean Mary” lyrics a little. So, I did! Here’s the result, used with Mayer’s gracious permission. We thought you might enjoy it as a Sea Grant offering for U.S. National Poetry Month.

Great Lakes Julie

There’s a road in a river town
And on that road is Julie’s home
By her house is a deep ravine
Running there is a magic stream
Laughing over sand and rocks
It runs the length of Julie’s block
Another mile to the riverside
And a hundred more to the Great Lakes wide

Now, down in that ravine one day
By the water, Julie lay
Put her hand in the shallow stream
And Julie had a magic dream
She imagined that, inside her, stirred
All the waters of the Earth
Every puddle, every wave
And every one of the five Great Lakes

She could feel the fishes roam
In her fingers and her toes
And in her chest, the Keweenaw Current flows

Now, ever since her dream that day
People say that Julie’s changed
But they sympathize when they think
It must be strange to be the Great Lakes
She senses when the salmon swim
And waterspouts lick her skin
Canada tickles her left arm
And the moon above tugs her heart
Her front is Duluth, her back Oswego
She recollects the glaciers’ decline
Rip currents run up her spine
And lightning tingles when it strikes

She can feel the fishes roam
In her fingers, in her toes
And in her chest, the Keweenaw Current flows

And all this happened, so it seems
Because of Julie’s magic stream
But some will say that ponds and wells
And even rain can cast a spell
And every water drop you ask
Tells a tale of Great Lakes vast
So be careful when you take a drink
There’s magic in the kitchen sink!

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As  lake sturgeon in Michigan’s Black Lake in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties travel up the Black River to spawn in shallow waters, volunteers will be ready to guard the fish against poaching. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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The Toledo shipping channel in the Maumee River is relatively shallow, so it has to be dredged on a regular basis to make it deep enough for freighters. Sediment brought up during that process is now being put to good use in a number of places including the new Glass City Metropark. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.

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An Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Monday that Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation is — and always has been — the rightful owner of Sauble Beach after decades of litigation. The 2.5-kilometre stretch of Lake Huron shoreline was previously claimed by the Town of South Bruce Peninsula. Read the full story by the St. Catherines Standard.

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A new immersive, hands-on course at Muskegon Community College is taking a close look at freshwater ecology. The Aquatic Ecology course introduces students to the processes that occur in local bodies of water, including the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WOOD-TV Grand Rapids.

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Researchers from across northwest Ohio met at the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center in Oregon on Wednesday to clean and calibrate sensors that will be going into Lake Erie in preparation for another summer algal bloom season. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.

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Representatives of fifty-one Tribal and First Nations located in what is now the United States and Canada submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on the Government of Canada to stop violating the human rights of Indigenous peoples through its support for Enbridge’s Line 5 crude oil pipeline. Read the full story by Environmental Defence.

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Great Lakes Commission awarded over $10 million for habitat restoration in Great Lakes Areas of Concern

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) announced that it has been awarded more than $10 million to fund habitat restoration in the Great Lakes basin. The funding will accelerate projects in the Niagara River and Maumee Areas of Concern (AOCs): the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park Restoration Project in Buffalo, New York; the Collins Park Restoration Project in Toledo, Ohio; and the University of Toledo Swan Creek Restoration Project, also in Toledo, Ohio.

The funding was awarded as part of a new regional partnership between the GLC and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to restore Great Lakes coastal habitat, with a focus on areas of historic pollution more formally known as AOCs. This work directly contributes to efforts to remove the Niagara and Maumee Rivers from the list of Great Lakes AOCs.

“This is the fifth time since 2008 that the Great Lakes Commission has been awarded funding for habitat restoration, with over $76 million being directed to priority sites across the basin,” said GLC Chair Todd L. Ambs of Wisconsin. “We appreciate NOAA’s continued support and look forward to working with our federal, state and local partners on these critical projects. Restoring Great Lakes coastal wetlands and riparian areas protects the environment and human health, as well as being a great economic driver for the region.”

To celebrate its new partnership with NOAA, the GLC has released a new video highlighting the benefits of this collaboration. This video was produced by Great Lakes Outreach Media and features key partners. The video can be viewed here.

For more information about the GLC’s habitat restoration work, visit https://www.glc.org/work/habitat.

The Great Lakes Commission, led by chair Todd L. Ambs, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (retired), is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone. Learn more at www.glc.org.

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Most cemeteries are looking to provide green burial as an option, whether it’s immediately today or as part of their master plan.

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Episode 2303 Lesson Plans: Citizen science in the Great Lakes

This lesson will explore the phenomenon of light pollution in the Great Lakes and some of the citizen science efforts going on around the region. Students will explore the impact that artificial lights have on night sky visibility for star gazing, learn about how everyday people can contribute to scientific research, and engage in citizen science projects in their community.

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For three days in March the world came together at the United Nations in New York City to discuss ways to place water at the center of decision-making. Public officials, business leaders, and scientists from the Great Lakes region attended the conference, linking global debates about freshwater supply and management with local experience. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

 

 

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The federal government says it’s making Canada’s largest investment ever in protecting the nation’s sources of fresh water, including the Great Lakes. Commitments announced by the government during U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit and in the recent budget bring the federal government’s total investment to $750 million. Read the full story by CBC News.

 

 

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On March 30, a lawsuit was filed against H. Wood Farms in Jefferson County, New York, with claims that runoff from the over 2,000-cow dairy farm has previously polluted nearby creeks that run into the St. Lawrence River. However, the Wood Farms President and Co-Owner said these accusations are false. Read the full story by WWTI- TV – Watertown, NY.

 

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In their annual meeting held last week in the Ontario city of Hamilton, the Lake Erie Committee established the total allowable catches for 2023, a determination of how many walleye and yellow perch can be harvested from the lake. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.

 

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that February 2023 was Earth’s fourth-warmest on record. In the Great Lakes basin, this is being witnessed through less lake ice cover, which is already having major impacts. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

 

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