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Tale of 2 Cities Reveals Water’s Impact

Go to the web page below and answer the following questions. All questions must be answered in complete sentences.

Web Page:

  1. Michael Pollocoff remembers the water of Pleasant Prairie looking like ______and smelling like ______two decades ago.
  1. What element did Pleasant Prairie struggle with in its municipal wells?
  1. What needs to happen before water can be taken outside the Great LakesBasin?
  1. What makes the water in Lowell, Indiana unsafe to drink?
  1. How much did the population of Pleasant Prairie grow by during the decade after it was connected to Lake Michigan?

Click on the side bar How Nature Replenishes the Water in... and answer the following questions:

  1. The Great Lakes were gifts from what?
  1. Currently, only three cities are allowed to divert water from Lake Michigan. Who are these cities and how much water is diverted by these cities?
  1. In what year was water diverted from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River to help the flow of barges again?

Click on the side bar How the Great Lakes Stack Upand answer the following questions:

  1. In the cross section of the Great Lakes, what does the white dotted line running across the picture represent?
  1. Which of the Great Lakes has the largest land drainage area?
  1. Which of the Great Lakes is entirely in the US?
  1. Which of the Great Lakes is least polluted?
  1. List the Great Lakes in decreasing order according to volume.

Return to the article and click on the side bar directly below the one you just exited.

  1. Of all the Great Lakes water used, what percent do the Canadians use?
  1. In Canada, a Governor is called a ______.

Return to the article and answer the following questions:

  1. According to the Great Lakes Commission, only ______of the Great Lakes water is renewed annually by rain, runoff and the huge quantities that trickle in from neighboring groundwater.
  1. Because political power in the US is shifting to the Sun Belt states, who might impose new laws governing the Great Lakes?

Click on the side bar Water Facts and answer the following questions:

  1. How many people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water?
  1. How many gallons a day does the average person need to survive doing everyday tasks?
  1. The average US citizen uses ______gallons of water per day for drinking, cooking, showering, bathing, and watering the yard while the average person in the Netherlands uses ______, and the average Somalian uses ______.
  1. What is the minimum required water amount for doing the tasks mentioned in question 20?
  1. Which state consumes the most water from the Great Lakes? What does Consumptive Water UseMean? Does it surprise you that this states rates the highest in Consumptive Water Use?

Return to the article and click on the side bar directly below the one you just exited.

  1. How many miles of rivers does Wisconsin have?
  1. Along what rivers is the highest concentration of paper mills?

Return to the article and answer the following questions:

  1. The Great Lakes account for about ______of the world’s freshwater.
  1. "People look at these great bodies of water and say, 'It's ridiculous to say we can't use more of it,' " says Peter Gleick, an Oakland, Calif.-based water policy expert and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a non-profit center that focuses on the environment and ______development. "I think it is a legitimate fear.
  1. What is the Water Resources Development Act? Who needs to approve any water diversions?
  1. What twists and swerves and reaches inland sometimes for hundreds of miles?
  1. What did the Nova Group try to do?
  1. When will the “Laws” of "Annex 2001," be released?
  1. According to Reg Gilbert, senior coordinator for Great Lakes United, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based environmental group, "Water at the moment is______.”
  1. ______is a magnet for Illinois homeowners - two-thirds of all new homes built in the first half of the 1990s were purchased by Illinois residents, according to the village.

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