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Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement is an agreement between Canada and the United States that provides for binational efforts to restore and protect the Great Lakes. The Agreement was created under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty, which mentions pollution as a problem the two countries will work to prevent. The cooperative system created by the two countries under the agreement is considered a global model for peaceful management of natural resources across an international boundary. The agreement contained a provision for periodic review as problems were solved or new problems recognized. The agreement is now undergoing such a review.

The governments are now beginning to write issue-specific annexes to a revised Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. We must act now to make sure that the new Agreement reflects our concerns and solutions.

The six-week public consultation period is now closed. Thank you for your participation.

The document that Great Lakes United and its ENGO partners submitted to the governments containing written comments can be viewed here:

http://www.glu.org/sites/default/files/ENGO_GLWQAcomments_july9_FINAL.pdf

If you would like to read a specific section of the document containg the final comments, please visit the following links:
Great Lakes United has set up a special section of our website to help communicate background information about the issues in the Agreement. Please visit the Take Action page to access this information and to find out how else you can get involved.
 

For further information, contact John Jackson at 519-744-7503 or

jjackson@glu.org

or Rachel Heckl at 716-913-2709 or

rheckl@glu.org