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Egan, Dan author.
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Lake ecology -- Great Lakes (North America)
Introduced organisms -- Great Lakes (North America)
Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Great Lakes (North America)
Water quality -- Great Lakes (North America)
Great Lakes (North America) -- Environmental conditions.
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The death and life o...
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The death and life of the
Great
Lakes
/ Dan Egan.
by
Egan, Dan author.
Subjects
Lake ecology
--
Great
Lakes
(
North
America
)
Introduced organisms
--
Great
Lakes
(
North
America
)
Nonindigenous
aquatic
pests
--
Great
Lakes
(
North
America
)
Water quality
--
Great
Lakes
(
North
America
)
Great
Lakes
(
North
America
)
--
Environmental conditions.
Publisher Info:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xix, 364 pages : illustations, map ; 25 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780393246438
0393246434
Contents:
The front door. Carving a fourth seacoast : dreams of a seaway ; Three fish : the story of lake trout, sea lampreys and alewives ; The world's
great
fishing hole : the introduction of coho and chinook salmon ; Noxious cargo : the invasion of zebra and quagga mussels
--
The back door. Continental undivide : Asian carp and Chicago's backwards river ; Conquering a continent : the mussel infestation of the West ;
North
America
's "dead" sea : toxic algae and the threat to Toledo's water supply
--
The future. 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.
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Summary:
"The
Great
Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the
Great
Lakes
is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the
lakes
with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. For 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 time--and the changes in Chicago arrested at deadly cycle of waterborne illnesses--but 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. Egan also explores why outbreaks of toxic algae stemming from the overapplication of farm fertilizer have left massive biological "dead zones" that threaten the supply of fresh water. He examines fluctuations in the levels of the
lakes
caused by manmade climate change and overzealous dredging of shipping channels. And he reports on the chronic threats to siphon off
Great
Lakes
water to slake drier regions of
America
or to be sold abroad. 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, The Death and Life of the
Great
Lakes
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."--Jacket.
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