Mayor calls for lakes' 'salvation'

October 15, 2010 - 05:46 — glbm

Each and every day, more than 2 billion gallons of water are diverted from the Great Lakes at Chicago to tributaries of the Mississippi River. That diversion not only reduces water levels as far away as the Georgian Bay and Port Huron, it also provides a convenient channel for invasive species to spread from one great watershed to another. As we've argued many times in the past, this man-made diversion must be plugged. Whatever benefit it once provided is more than outweighed by the damage it causes today.

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