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Flow Regimes
Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - Present
This is a planning grant to identify the ecological benefits and explore the financial rationale for pursuing water conservation and green infrastructure practices, and test how this information—when combined with effective knowledge transfer techniques—can drive better water management throughout the Great Lakes basin.
Optimizing Industry Water Use - Phase II
2010 - 2012
This team will examine industrial water use with a host of different water footprinting methods to predict ecosystem impacts in the Great Lakes.
Piloting a Paradigm for Adaptive Management of Great Lakes Watersheds
2010 - Present
This team will create a new set of analytic tools to explore the many uses of the basin’s waters, those uses’ impacts on ecological health and the economic value created by such uses.
Compact Council Support: Non-regulatory Operations
2010 - Present
This award provides support for the non-regulatory operations of the Compact Council and Regional Body. The team will prepare a funding and operating plan for these new units of government.
Optimizing Industry Water Use
2009 - 2010
In this planning phase, the team held a water footprinting expert panel workshop to explore effective footprinting methodologies for industrial operations in the Great Lakes basin.
Integrating Energy and Water Resources Decision Making
2009 - 2011
This team how integration of ecological factors into the planning and siting of power production facilities could minimize impacts on aquatic habitats and resources.
Water Management Program Efficiency and Effectiveness Initiative
2009 - 2011
This grant allows the Council of Great Lakes Governors to support the non-regulatory work of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council (Compact Council) and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body (Regional Body).
Water Use Impacts and Conservation Benefits
2009 - 2011
This team is exploring how water conservation can be used more practically, showing how reducing the impacts of usage can alleviate environmental problems more effectively than simply calling for reduced use.
Value of Great Lakes Water Initiative
2009 - 2011
This team examined how efficiency-oriented pricing could be employed in the Great Lakes region and how it could be linked to water management issues such as availability for human use and ecosystem impacts.
Great Lakes Watershed Ecological Sustainability Strategy
2009 - 2011
This team is designing pilot applications of an integrated watershed restoration process that integrates efforts to restore water movements, water chemistry and water’s biological condition.
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