{"id":2515,"date":"2014-12-05T20:16:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2014-12-05T20:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:16:35","slug":"cheers-ontario-takes-action-to-limit-water-transfers-within-the-great-lakes-basin-environmental-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | &#8211; Environmental Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/blog\/cheers-ontario-takes-action-limit-water-transfers-within-great-lakes-basin\">Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | &#8211; Environmental Defence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"><em>By Anastasia Lintner, Lintner Law and Nancy Goucher, Environmental Defence<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Last Thursday, the Government of Ontario filed a new regulation that, commencing on January 1, 2015, will stop diversions of water from one Great Lakes watershed to another (save for well-defined exceptions).\u00a0 With this new regulation, Ontario has finally fulfilled its commitments under an agreement we have with Quebec and the U.S. Great Lakes states, so that both Canadian and U.S. jurisdictions must follow strict standards and procedures should they want to move major amounts of water within or outside of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">The Great Lakes may seem like a limitless resource (we often hear that these lakes hold almost 20 per cent of the world\u2019s available surface freshwater), but in reality, these water bodies are not as stable as some might like to think. About 99 per cent of the water we see is left over from when the glaciers melted some 10,000 years ago. That means only one per cent of the water in the lakes is renewed annually. If more than that leaves the system in a year, water levels will decline. That\u2019s why we need to guard our water supplies and carefully control how much water we artificially move between watersheds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | &#8211; Environmental Defence. By Anastasia Lintner, Lintner Law and Nancy Goucher, Environmental Defence Last Thursday, the Government of Ontario filed a new regulation that, commencing on January 1, 2015, will stop diversions of water from one Great Lakes watershed to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1676,866,1677],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-great-lakes","tag-water","tag-water-diversions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}