Water
Great Lakes connects Midwest with Middle East in Chicago
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The summit spurs water management discussions and launches an initiative by three regional universities to look at water through a lens of the humanities rather than engineering.
Nearshore
Stream app turns Great Lakes citizens into scientists
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Anyone can contribute water level information with app unveiled today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Nearshore
New tool helps visualize how climate change could affect the Great Lakes
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A new web tool, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows how the Great Lakes would look in different climate change situations.
Water
Month in review: Detroit water shut-offs, carp and pipelines
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At the end of each month we check in with Echo commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin. For today’s Great Lakes Month in Review, Gary discusses Detroit water shutoffs and the latest legal news on the Asian Carp situation. This segment is a feature of a partnership between Great Lakes Echo and WKAR’s Current State public affairs program. supported by Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
Water
Great Lakes Commons charter targets shared waters concept
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A group advocating that all citizens of the region assume responsibility for the Great Lakes as a common resource is meeting virtually with 100 people to discuss its new charter.
Water
Month in review: Carp and Waukesha
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At the end of each month, we check in with Echo commentator Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the Basin. Click on the audio clip above for today’s Great Lakes Month in Review which discusses efforts to keep Asian carp and Waukesha, Wis., out of Lake Michigan. This segment is produced as part of a partnership with WKAR’s Current State public affairs program. More radio news about the Great Lakes environment can be found on Current State every Tuesday as part of our partnership.
Water
Congress expands Great Lakes dredging
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Everybody knows water flows, but not many people know that the sediment below it does too. That’ s why harbors need dredging, or excavating the gradually accumulated material at the bottom of the water and transporting it elsewhere. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District had planned eight dredging projects in Michigan and Wisconsin for 2014 worth $13.2 million. But Congress recently allocated an additional $17.8 million. That allows the district to include eight new projects and increase funding for four of the original projects.
Water
Great Lakes year in review: Tar sands, governors’ summit, budget battles and Waukesha
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Great Lakes Echo commentator Gary Wilson looks back at some of the biggest Great Lakes stories of 2013.
Water
Paying more to lose water by the minute
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As your water rates creep higher, nearly six billion gallons of water that you paid to treat is lost nationwide every day.
In the Great Lakes region, that means enough yearly water loss to submerge Manhattan… and then some.
Climate
Even water rich Great Lakes residents must adapt to climate change
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According to a new report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 40 percent of the world’s population will live under severe water stress by 2050. While the Great Lakes region is water rich, the report suggest that even water wealthy areas should work toward adaptive policies to secure freshwater’s future.