The Great Lakes water wars / Peter Annin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Annin, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply.

Water resources development.

Great Lakes (North America).

Water resources development--Great Lakes (North America).

Water-supply--Great Lakes (North America).

Physical Description:

xxii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2018]

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

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?

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781610919920

1610919920

OCLC:

1055677493