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The Great Lakes water wars / Peter Annin.

By: Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1610919920
  • 9781610919920
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.9163 23
LOC classification:
  • HD1695 .G69 A56 2018
Contents:
Part I. Hope and hopelessness. To have and have not -- The Aral experiment -- Climate change and water levels : going to extremes? -- Aversion to diversion -- Part II. Battle lines and skirmishes. Reversing a river -- Carp in the CAWS -- Long Lac and Ogoki -- Pleasing Pleasant Prairie -- Sacrificing Lowell -- Tapping Mud Creek -- Akron gets the nod -- Part III. New rules of engagement. The Nova group and Annex 2001 -- Marching toward a compact -- Waukesha worries -- New Berlin : the compact's forgotten test case -- Waukesha takes its shot -- Who will win the war?
Summary: The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America's greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In part to protect the Great Lakes from overzealous entrepreneurship, the Great Lakes Compact was signed in 2008. Although the Compact fulfills that promise and ensures that Great Lakes water stays within the Basin, some would say it has only shifted the controversy closer to home. Now water diversion controversies of a different kind are some of the most fought-over environmental issues in the region. Will the water wars ever be settled? -- Amazon.com
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD1695 .G69 A56 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001537058

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and index.

Part I. Hope and hopelessness. To have and have not -- The Aral experiment -- Climate change and water levels : going to extremes? -- Aversion to diversion -- Part II. Battle lines and skirmishes. Reversing a river -- Carp in the CAWS -- Long Lac and Ogoki -- Pleasing Pleasant Prairie -- Sacrificing Lowell -- Tapping Mud Creek -- Akron gets the nod -- Part III. New rules of engagement. The Nova group and Annex 2001 -- Marching toward a compact -- Waukesha worries -- New Berlin : the compact's forgotten test case -- Waukesha takes its shot -- Who will win the war?

The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America's greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In part to protect the Great Lakes from overzealous entrepreneurship, the Great Lakes Compact was signed in 2008. Although the Compact fulfills that promise and ensures that Great Lakes water stays within the Basin, some would say it has only shifted the controversy closer to home. Now water diversion controversies of a different kind are some of the most fought-over environmental issues in the region. Will the water wars ever be settled? -- Amazon.com

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