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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The dream of a fourth seacoast : building the St. Lawrence seaway -- Three fish : the story of lake trout, sea lampreys and alewives -- Farming the lakes : the introduction of coho and chinook salmon -- Noxious cargo : the invasion of zebra and quagga mussels -- Continental undivide : Asian carp and Chicago's backwards river -- Conquering a continent : the mussel infestation of the west -- America's dead sea : toxic algae and the Toledo water crisis -- Plugging the drain : the never-ending threat to siphon away great lakes water -- A shaky balancing act : climate change and the fall and rise of the lakes -- A Great Lake revival : charting a course toward integrity, stability and balance. |
| Summary |
aA landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.--The Death and Life of the Great LakesFor thousands of years the pristine Great Lakes were separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the roaring Niagara Falls and from the Mississippi River basin by a "sub-continental divide. "Beginning in the late 1800s, these barriers were circumvented to attract oceangoing freighters from the Atlantic and to allow Chicago's sewage to float out to the Mississippi. These were engineering marvels in their time₇and the changes in Chicago arrested a deadly cycle of waterborne illnesses₇but they have had horrendous unforeseen consequences. Egan provides a chilling account of how sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels and other invaders have made their way into the lakes, decimating native species and largely destroying the age-old ecosystem. And because the lakes are no longer isolated, the invaders now threaten water intake pipes, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure across the country.--In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available water,--is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource, an urgent examination of what threatens it and a convincing call to arms about the relatively simple things we need to do to protect it. |
| Audience |
General adult. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9780393246438 |
| Subject |
Lake ecology -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Introduced organisms -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Water quality -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Great Lakes (North America) -- Environmental conditions.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780393246445
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| STANDARD # |
8B155D12-95A2-4B9A-8B83-61DF6695728B OverDrive |
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