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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: death and life of the Great Lakes
  name:
    name part: Egan, Dan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 364 pages : illustations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The Great Lakes, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior, hold twenty 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 a 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…
  table of contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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.
  note: Dan Egan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: nl-----
  subject:
    topic: Lake ecology
    geographic: Great Lakes (North America)
  subject:
    geographic: Great Lakes (North America)
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    topic: Introduced organisms
    geographic: Great Lakes (North America)
  subject:
    topic: Nonindigenous aquatic pests
    geographic: Great Lakes (North America)
  subject:
    topic: Water quality
    geographic: Great Lakes (North America)
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: State & Local
    topic: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Ecosystems & Habitats
    topic: Lakes, Ponds & Swamps
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Environmental Policy
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry
  classification: QH104.5.G7 E43 2017
  classification: 577.630977
  identifier: 9780393246438
  identifier: 0393246434
  identifier: 2016039546
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161222
    record change date: 20180718090301.0
    record identifier: in00004035036