Michael Gilbertson (Gilbertson, M., 1997. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54, 483鈥 495) has asserted that the adoption of an ecosystem approach to problem-solving in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) of 1978 has undermined the ability of Canada and the United States to grapple...
Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), the Great Lakes Water Quality Board (WQB) serves the IJC in an advisory capacity. The WQB has identified decommissioning of nuclear power stations as a priority topic in the Great Lakes basin....
In an effort to improve the water quality of the Great Lakes, U.S. and Canada signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) in 1972, which was renewed in 1978 and identified phosphorus (P) as the nutrient of primary concern and defined target P loads for each lake. The GLWQA ...
The GLWQA has identified phosphorus (P) as the nutrient of primary concern for eutrophication in the Great Lakes and defined target P loads for each lake. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has also developed a national strategy to reduce concentrations of P by establishing water...
itwasprimarilyeutrophicationthatpromptedtheUSandCanadatosigntheGreatLakesWaterQualityAgreement(GLWQA)in1972,withstipulatednutrientloadingreductiontargetsforthelake.Thesephosphorus(P)loadingswerefrombothpoint(sewagetreatmentplants,industrialdischarges)andnon-pointsources(agriculture,urbanrunoff),butmeasuresintheGLWQAfocused...
We thank the United States Environmental Protection Agency for providing Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding (grant number GL-97229201) to make this study possible. We also thank New York State Department of Environmental Conservation regional staff and Great Lakes units for fish collections, and...
In response, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between the United States and Canada was enacted in 1972 and led to decreased nutrient loadings and a general improvement in water trans...Eutrophication of the St. Lawrence Great - BEETON - 1965 () Citation Context ...aken as ...
Some argue that a collective vision for the future of the Laurentian Great Lakes is embodied in theGreat Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). The GLWQA is a binational agreement, first signed in 1972 by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and President Richard Nixon, wherein the two countries (the...
See "Protocol Amending the Agreement Between the United States of America and Canada on Great Lakes Water Quality, 1978" (Sept. 7, 2012) (2012 Protocol), http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/ glwqa/1978/index.html. The 2012 Protocol address aquatic invasive species, habitat degradation, algae blooms,...
The governments of Canada and the United States signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), which committed both countries to take concrete actions to protect the lakes. The GLWQA also offered a management framework called the Ecosystem Approach to deal with existing as well as ...