Joint Action Plan for Clean Water Infrastructure and Services in the Great Lakes Region

Water infrastructure allows for delivery of quality drinking water and the management of wastewater and stormwater to protect lakes, rivers, and streams that are also the source of drinking water for many. [...] It includes all the places, people, and things that deliver clean In late 2016, the Great Lakes Commission adopted a water from rivers and lakes to homes and resolution, “providing and maintaining clean water businesses, as well as those people, places, and infrastructure and services in the Great Lakes Basin” things that treat sewage and other water after acknowledging the challenges associated w [...] It is a crisis and actions that can be enhanced or modified to that closes beaches in a region that boasts the ensure that federal, state/provincial, and local longest coastline in the U. S., and it is a crisis water infrastructure investments are strategically where more and more communities cannot prioritized based on regional risks and needs, and ensure access to safe, reliable, and affordable [...] The lead contamination of drinking water in the City of Flint, Michigan, and the 2014 closure of the drinking water system in the City of Toledo, Ohio due to toxic algae in Lake Erie dramatically illustrate the magnitude and severity of these challenges. [...] An example of Québec’s progress came in 2016 with the signing of the Canada- Québec Agreement on the Public Transit Infrastructure Fund and the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.