Waterblogged

When Russians hear about our so-called Great Lakes, they just laugh in that hearty Russian way. Sure the Fab Fresh Five combined contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh water, but Lake Baikal (pictured left), located in Siberia north of Mongolia, holds 20 percent of everyone’s favorite combination of salt-free hydrogen and oxygen; while it [...]

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Veteran journalist Peter Annin used the above sensational title for his 2006 book about the dubious future of what is approximately 18 per cent of the world’s freshwater. Yep. The Fab Fresh Five—Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario—constitute the largest freshwater system on the planet. (Poor little Lake St. Clair, though part of the [...]

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