Great Lakes Compact

River Reversal: Chicago's Special Anniversary

Debra Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Debra Shore

For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.

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Great Lakes Protection Treaty Takes Effect

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A multistate treaty to limit use of Great Lakes water goes into effect Monday. The Great Lakes Compact generally bars large-scale, long-distance with...

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Aqua Fina or Aqua Finite?

Karen Dionne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Dionne

Recently, governors and legislatures... approved the Great Lakes Compact, a landmark agreement that bans the sale and diversion of water outside the region.

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Great Lakes (Almost) Protected

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Great Lakes account for about 20 percent of the world's surface freshwater and 84 percent of North America's, and the region has extraordinary pol...

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