On keeping the Great Lakes great...

[djkimmel]

I received the link for this article on the importance of the Great Lakes and our freshwater heritage/bank from H2Onotes.com also:

Water Day
Waste none to meet global thirst
March 22, 2006

Twenty liters of water is about what one person can carry. It is also the amount the World Water Council considers the minimum needed for daily human existence, including drinking, washing and cooking. So perhaps it's no coincidence that the largest containers allowed for use exporting water from Michigan are been fixed by law at 20 liters or 5.7 gallons, which is slightly bigger.

That's just one tiny reminder of how the world's water issues intertwine with what happens here in the Great Lakes state. more...>