Great Lakes Active Issues

Online Document Libraries

assembled by Great Lakes United

updated April 9, 2007

 

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

Groundbreaking agreement between the United States and Canada to prevent pollutionof the lakes, orginally signed in 1972, currently undergoing review and possible revision

"Annex" documents

U.S. states "compact" document and Canada-U.S. states and provinces "agreement" document intended to prevent large-scale water diversion and abuse

Great Lakes and climate change

Studies on the likely impact of coming climate change on the region