Raise a Glass to Quality Drinking Water
The five Great Lakes provide us with some of the finest drinking water found anywhere. Drinking water quality was measured in the Great Lakes region, scoring the water on 10 different health-related measurements. The Great Lakes were found to have “some of the finest drinking water sources found anywhere in the world,” according to State of the Great Lakes 2009 (http://binational.net/solec/sogl2009/sogl_2009_h_en.pdf), prepared by Environment Canada and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Viewer Tip: Save money and reduce waste by drinking tap water. You’ll help keep more bottles from heading to landfills, which collect millions of plastic bottles every year. Find information about the quality of your municipal water system from the U.S. EPA at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html.
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This information is provided by the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Learn more: www.greatlakes.org.
(Sources: Alliance for the Great Lakes “This is My Water” campaign, http://www.thisismywater.com; “State of the Great Lakes 2009,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Canada; Worldwatch Institute, “State of the World 2007.”)
