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WATER = OIL OF FUTURE

WATER = OIL OF FUTURE. SOME NEEDED OIL EVERYONE NEEDS WATER. WATER ECONOMICS. Brookings For every $1 spent for water in Great Lakes there is a $2 return on Investment In Ohio water related activities generate $2 billion annually. 2010. Asian Carps at center of attention

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WATER = OIL OF FUTURE

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  1. WATER = OIL OF FUTURE SOME NEEDED OIL EVERYONE NEEDS WATER

  2. WATER ECONOMICS • Brookings • For every $1 spent for water in Great Lakes there is a $2 return on Investment • In Ohio water related activities generate $2 billion annually

  3. 2010 • Asian Carps at center of attention • Great Lakes Compact implementing language now under consideration • $475 million Great Lakes RestorationIniative(GLRI) projects • Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement • Nutrient standards big buz in water

  4. GREAT LAKES • 10,900 miles of shoreline • 20% World’s Surface Fresh Water • 95% of US Surface Fresh Water • Drinking Water 40 million people • Home to over 100 rare species Superior Huron Ontario 1% of the Great Lakes Water is Replenished Annually Michigan Erie

  5. Invaders/Invasive Species Ballast Water Quagga mussel Zebra mussel(first record -1986 Lake St.Clair Round Goby (first record -1990) Lake St. Clair 180 invasive species in the Great Lakes Asian Carp Purple Loosestrife Phragmites

  6. CHICAGO RIVERa sewer

  7. LAKE ERIE GREAT LAKES INDICATOR SHALLOW, WARM, FISHY WATER QUALITY WATER QUANTITY MOST TO GAIN…MOST TO LOSE Lake Erie More Consumable Fish than all the other Great Lakes Combined

  8. CLIMATE CHANGE LAKE ERIE LESS WATER???? MORE STORMS Lots of precipitation Some seasons – little others lots

  9. LAKE ERIE SHALLOW VULNERABLE

  10. LAKE ERIE THREE BASINS 62’ Aver. Depth 120’ Botulism 62’ Dead Zones 24’ Algae

  11. LAKE ERIE LAND USE Percent of Basin Green – Forest Yellow – Farms Red – Developed Blue – Preserves, Parks Forest /Agriculture / Residential /Other

  12. LAKE ERIE MORECONSUMMABLE FISH THAN ALL THE GREAT LAKES COMBINED

  13. Lake Erie Water Quality Trends Before 1970 Getting Worse 1970-1975 Stable 1975-1990 Improving 1990/1995 to present Getting Worse

  14. Maumee Lake Erie Phosphorus 1970 Maumee Cuyahoga 2007 Sandusky Grand Dissolved Phosphorous Levels

  15. PHOSPHOROUS/NUTRIENT SOURCES • Agriculture • Industrial Agriculture • Lawn Fertilizer • Wastewater plants • Dishwashing detergent • Storm Runoff • Zebra mussel excretion

  16. Grand Lake St. Mary’s 2010 September 2009 North Cape September 2010

  17. INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE…TOO MUCH MANURE I cow = Waste of 20 people 2000 cows = Waste of 40,000 people

  18. WALLEYE POPULATION IN LAKE ERIE in millions Walleye Ohio sports anglers - 1.25 mil. Ontario commercial fishery - 1.06 mil. Michigan .14 mil. Yellow Perch Ohio officials decreased the sport and commercial yellow perch harvest in the Western Basin of Lake Erie in 2008 to protect perch populations. The DOW halted Ohio commercial fishing for yellow perch around Western Lake Erie, and trimmed the daily sport bag limit from 30 to 25 perch west of Huron.

  19. Enrico Fermi FIVE POWER PLANTS River Raisin • 3 Billiiongal. water /day • Kills millions fish - impinged • Billions fish larvae and eggs • Heats water 5-15ºF Monroe Detroit Edison North Cape Western Lake Erie Erie Marsh Whiting Consumers Power Erie Marsh ToledoLighthouse Ottawa River Maumee Bay Ottawa River Little Cedar Point Bayshore First Energy Maumee River Davis Besse Maumee River

  20. BAYSHORE FIRST ENERGY Est. Largest Fish Killer in Great Lakes………………… Caught on Screens Thru Screens 2005-2006 68 million 2.1 Billion 1976-1977 19 million 1.4 Billion Thru the screens 2005-2006 2.5 billion

  21. Maumee Great Lakes Largest Watershed

  22. Great Lakes Most • Biologically Productive River 130 Miles Long • 3 States

  23. Maumee River 4-18-2010 Maumee Tackle

  24. Maumee 3,942 Stream Miles 8,316 Sq. Miles 105 miles/Ohio 22.8 Miles AOC

  25. When it rains lots…. sewage & nutrients flow downstream Fort Wayne, Defiance…..Detroit

  26. Tiling Factory Farms Fertilizer

  27. Maumee Watershed 5% of Lake Erie Flow 50% of Lake Erie Sediment Over 50% of Nutrients

  28. Reduce Phosphorous

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