Wednesday, 07 December 2011 09:56
This is a bit of sad news without a clear solution......
"We need to be honest with ourselves. What we have created is the largest inland freshwater dead zone in the world. At 15,000 square kilometres in area, algal blooms in Lake Winnipeg are now larger than the record 8,500-square-mile area of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. We need to admit that we are nowhere near to solving the Lake Winnipeg problem. Nor are we as a nation taking the problem as seriously as we should."
Read Full Blog Post on Water CanadaPosted on December 5, 2011
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Bob Sandford