Posts tagged with ‘great lakes’ (2)
It’s like the opening scene of a monster movie: You’re paddling along serenely, all alone in the middle of a giant lake. Make it Great Slave Lake, North America’s deepest and the world’s ninth largest. The waves aren’t too bad; the wind conditions are relatively favourable.
Feeling adventurous, you proceed along a cliff-walled shoreline. You’re feeling in control of things until suddenly, the wind picks up right when you’re at your most vulnerable. There’s no safe landing for a long distance in ...
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Posted by Michela Rosano
on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Today is world water day and with three bordering oceans, four out five of the Great Lakes and seven percent of the world’s renewable freshwater supply, the wet stuff is Canada’s lifeblood.
Perhaps some of the most disputed water resources in our country, the Great Lakes have been “polluted”, “cleaned up” and “polluted” again more times than you can shake a stick at. Need proof? Here’s a Great Lakes clean-up story from the December/January 1990-91 issue of Canadian Geographic.
There are 42 Areas ...
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