Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin - Phase II
2012 - Present
A team led by Great Lakes United will work with communities in the U.S. and Canada to identify and test the ecological and financial rationales for pursuing water conservation and green infrastructure practices, and pilot how this information can drive better water management throughout the Great Lakes region.
Vacant to Vibrant: Vacant Land as Green Infrastructure
2012 - Present
A team led by the Cleveland Botanic Garden will establish a neighborhood-based network of vacant small-parcel green infrastructure projects to test the effectiveness of aggregated small parcels as a viable green infrastructure strategy to manage stormwater.
The Great Lakes Clean Communities Network
2012 - Present
A team led by Michigan State University will create a regional, collaborative, network of practitioners for large-scale stormwater management that will be supported and organized by a web-facilitated, interactive community.
Applying Water Stewardship Tools in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - Present
This team will create a new Great-Lakes specific water stewardship toolkit that will prevent or reduce ecosystem impacts by advancing the sustainability of the Basin’s water resources, and be compatible with industry needs.
Improving Water Management in the Great Lakes Basin
2012 - 2012
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, Effective Application of Water Footprinting Methodologies to Industrial Operations in the Great Lakes Basin
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 - 2013
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 - 2012
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.
Water Management Program Efficiency and Effectiveness Initiative
2009 - 2012
This grant allowed 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 - 2012
The team identified, examined, and quantifiably estimated a suite of environmental impacts resulting from water use and conservation.
