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The Great Lakes hold one fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people. The health of these lakes is critical.
Our Program
The Great Lakes hold one fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people.
Yet each day, our Lakes are damaged economically and ecologically by untreated sewage, industrial pollutants, habitat loss and invasive species. Climate change will only make these problems worse. Unless we invest in a solution today, the price we pay tomorrow will be much higher and future generations may never experience the Lakes as we know them.
Fortunately, there are solutions to these problems. But we must act now.
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Great Lakes Activism! A group of Sierra Club members in Michigan (Rochester, Rochester Hills, and Auburn Hills) are taking action to protect the health of our water! For the past two years, they have partnered with their City Department of Public Works, County Drain Commissioner's Office, and local watershed groups, and stenciled almost a thousand storm drains with the words "Dump No Waste, Drains to River." See more