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Lake County, Ill. to post beach advisories online

Lake lovers in Lake County, Illinois will now be able to go online this summer to check Lake Michigan conditions before heading out... Read more
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Kasich to sign Lake Erie withdrawal bill

Ohio governor John Kasich will sign a revised version of a bill that will regulate Lake Erie water withdrawals by industries. Kasich vetoed the bill earlier this year because withdrawal thresholds were too high. The thresholds in the current version will allow industries to take an average of 2.5 million gallons per day from the.. Read more
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Self powered buoys extract energy from wave motion

Scientists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, with funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed a novel way to use moored buoys to extract energy from waves... Read more
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Canada funding cuts drop lake research program

Federal funding cuts in Canada closed down the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario, a dedicated research facility for lake science. Open since the 1960’s the 58-lake system helped instill a phosphate control program in the St. Laurence Great Lakes Basin and proved biodiversity damage in water below a pH of 6. Ownership of the facilities.. Read more
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USDA initiative to reduce agricultural runoff

The USDA has developed a new program to improve water quality across the U.S... Read more
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