The Great Lakes Water Wars

• Main Author: Annin, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Environmental management.; Conservation biology.; Ecology .; Environmental policy.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Environmental Management.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Environmental Politics.

The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America's greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In par...

Table of Contents:

• Acronyms
• Epigraph by Aldo Leopold
• Dedication
• Author's Note
• Prologue
• Part I. Hope and Hopelessness
• 1. To Have and Have Not
• 2. The Aral Experiment
• 3. Climate Change & Water Levels-Going to Extremes?
• 4. Aversion to Diversion
• Part II. Battle Lines and Skirmishes
• 5. Reversing a River
• 6. Carp in the CAWS
• 7. Long Lac and Ogoki
• 8. Pleasing Pleasant Prairie
• 9. Sacrificing Lowell
• 10. Tapping Mud Creek
• 11. Akron Gets the Nod
• Part III. New Rules of Engagement
• 12. The Nova Group and Annex 2001
• 13. Marching toward a Compact
• 14. Waukesha Worries
• 15. New Berlin: The Compact's Forgotten Test Case
• 16. Waukesha Takes Its Shot
• 17. Who Will Win the War?
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• www.greatlakewaterwars.com
• Notes
• About the Author
• Index.