“Warmer, drier weather coupled with alterations to the waterways of North America’s Great Lakes will likely drive Lake Superior down to record low water levels sometime this year, experts say.”

China warns that Beijing may be at risk of lake algae due to heat.

“In late May, an algae bloom in China’s third biggest lake cut off water supplies to over 2 million residents of Wuxi city in the eastern province of Jiangsu and there have been smaller outbreaks since.”

Canadian Prime Minister announced the set up of the largest freshwater marine conservation area. The area will span more than 10,000 km2 along the northern shores of Lake Superior.

“The Army Corps of Engineers predicts Lake Huron will drop another 20 centimetres by next spring. And Environment Canada hydrologists predict that given another dry winter, the lake will break its all-time low since scientists began to record water levels almost 150 years ago.”

Filmmaker Ari Grief stresses his concern regarding Canada’s water situation and the need to change people’s perceptions about toilets and how we flush.

The target date for China to cleanup its major lakes is 2030. Officials in Beijing has also ordered “to halt a trend of worsening contamination.”

Toronto Star

A pact designed to preserve the Great Lakes is in reality a “slippery slope” that threatens severe harm to the world’s largest body of fresh water, a top U.S. environmental lawyer has warned Canadians.