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Cleanups planned for Coastweeks
The News-Messenger (9/2)
Ohio's 2008 Coastweeks observance will again focus on the preservation and protection of Lake Erie and its watershed through a variety of cleanup events along the shoreline and throughout its watershed.
Maritime Academy may hike maritime tuition up to 57%
Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/27)
Some of next year's students at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy could face tuition rate hikes of 50 percent or more.
Students build wind turbines
WTVG-TV Toledo (8/27)
Science students at Clay high school will soon have a way to measure the wind and how much power it can produce. This grant-funded project will provide data on how well turbines produce power in the changeable wind environment near the lake.
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What percentage of the entire world's freshwater supply is stored or contained in the Great Lakes?
from Adam in Westminster, Colorado
The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world's freshwater supply -- the largest freshwater system in the world! Collectively, the lakes contain over six quadrillion gallons of water.
The Great Lakes hold a number of other records as well:
- Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, and the third largest by volume
- The world's largest concentration of lighthouses is in the Great Lakes
- The Great Lakes region is the only place in the world where "lake-effect" snow occurs
- Some of the most ancient bedrock on the planet is found in the Great Lakes region --approaching 3 billion years in age
- The longest stretch of freshwater dunes in the world is found along Lake Michigan
Thank you for your question!
Answered on February 1, 2001