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    The Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement is a good-faith agreement among the Governors of the U.S. states of Illinois...
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    to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Compact and the Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement. The Great Lakes region takes...
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    the North American Great Lakes. Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries...
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  • ISSN 0701-1784. S2CID 135385108. "Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement", Council of Great Lakes Governors, Retrieved March...
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    Great Lakes Governors and the Premiers of Ontario and Quebec have negotiated the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement...
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    primary source is the Niagara River, draining Lake Erie, with the Saint Lawrence River serving as the outlet. The drainage basin covers 24,720 square miles...
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    Provinces of Ontario and Quebec endorsed the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Compact. It was signed into law by President...
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    of Lake Ontario, which does not directly drain into the Great Lakes, but into the Saint Lawrence River. The Basin is at the center of the Great Lakes region...
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    and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin," which includes the Saint Lawrence River. The Great Lakes Commission provides policy...
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  • the water supply of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin. The governors and premiers signed the Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water...
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    Charter. This led to the Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement of 2005 and the Great Lakes Compact which became effective...
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    Apostle Islands (category Islands of Lake Superior)
    shore of Lake Superior. Eagle Island has the only great blue heron rookery in the park." Good examples of the sea caves of the Great Lakes are located...
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    Salton Sea (redirect from Salton Lake)
    Cahuilla or a dry desert basin, respectively. When the Colorado River flowed into the valley, the lake level depended on river flows and the balance between...
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  • Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement, an environmental agreement between eight US states and two Canadian provinces, signed 2005. Great Lakes Compact...
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    "Saint Lawrence River". The Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2011. "Saint Louis...
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  • Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 (category Water treaties)
    of water quality are also within the IJC's purview. Boundary Waters International Joint Commission Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water...
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    follows rivers and lakes: from the westerly Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage...
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    States Safe Third Country Agreement Great LakesSaint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement Boston–Halifax relations United States Senate...
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    the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing...
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    Dead Sea (redirect from Asphaltic Lake)
    kyr BP), followed by Lake Lisan (c. 70–14 kyr) and finally by the Dead Sea. The water levels and salinity of the successive lakes (Amora, Lisan, Dead Sea)...
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    Aral Sea (redirect from Lake Aral)
    River Basin Organizations (the BVOs) of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers were institutions called upon by the ICWC to help manage water resources....
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    Great Lakes feed the St. Lawrence River (in the southeast) where the lowlands host much of Canada's economic output. Canada has over 2,000,000 lakes—563...
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    James Bay on the western side and by the drainage divide with the Saint Lawrence River basin on the eastern side. The topography of the area consist of generally...
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    List of islands in Isle Royale National Park (category Islands of Lake Superior in Michigan)
    Park. Located in Lake Superior, Isle Royale is the second largest island in the Great Lakes system, after only Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. At 206.7...
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    Flood control (redirect from Water control)
    surface runoff. Floods occur when ponds, lakes, riverbeds, soil, and vegetation cannot absorb all the water. This has been exacerbated by human activities...
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  • Cooperation on agreements between Canada and the United States and Quebec and Vermont on the protection of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. Advanced...
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    of only two major urban areas located within the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada). Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by early pioneer...
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    occurred approximately 12 to 15 mya, and the Great Lakes (as well as many other northern freshwater lakes and rivers) were carved by receding glaciers about...
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    gulf basin is approximately 1.6 million km2 (615,000 sq mi). Almost half of the basin consists of shallow continental shelf waters. The volume of water in...
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    of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in conjunction with American power authorities allowed the development of the potential of the St. Lawrence River, and agreements...
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