Category: Water

Protecting the Great Lakes for future generations

Choosing Your Great Lakes Future: A New Online Scenario Game

September 11, 2024

The Great Lakes of today are much cleaner and healthier than they were in the early and mid-1900s. Substantial investment and effort have improved the environments and communities around the…

Driving Sustainable Growth: A Testimonial from The Water Institute’s Participation at the 2024 Great Lakes Sustainable Growth Forum

July 31, 2024

In late June, the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) in collaboration with the Toronto Region Board of Trade, hosted the Great Lakes Sustainable Growth Forum. This significant event…

Life is Better by the Lakes: A New Summary of Great Lakes Climate Plans

June 4, 2024

What common themes exist across the Great Lakes region around climate action? What if the region had a unified vision? A team from the University of Michigan School for Environment…

Measuring What Matters: Household Water Use in the Great Lakes Region

May 21, 2024

“Measure what matters” and “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: those may be old clichés, but they’re still goodies! Business managers everywhere know that tracking important metrics and trends…

Fighting for the Future of the Great Lakes

May 1, 2024

I’ve spent most of my life around lakes. I grew up in Madison on an isthmus between two incredible bodies of water. One of my favorite trips in my early…