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Drinking Water & Lead Service Lines
In my last post, I championed drinking water and encouraged us to be grateful for the resource. Forty million of us in the Great Lakes region get our drinking water from the lakes. The resource is not available without challenges though. Service lines are pipes carrying water into buildings from…
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Drinking Water
One of the remarkable statistics that I share about the Great Lakes is that they provide drinking water to over 40 million people in North America. In today’s post I want to build a foundation of knowledge on the topic of drinking water. In coming posts, I am going to…
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Ice Cutters on the Great Lakes
On Wednesday, January 22nd, a Canadian freighter, the Manitoulin, became stuck in the ice of Lake Erie not far from Buffalo. The vessel had been dropping off wheat at the port in Buffalo and was on its way back to Canada. It took multiple days and a coordinated effort by…
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