Citizens Campaign for the Environment

Citizens Campaign for the Environment: "Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard
New York poised to join agreement to protect Great Lakes
BY DELEN GOLDBERG
February 11, 2008

New Yorkers moved one step closer Monday to having our greatest water resource permanently protected.

The state Legislature passed the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, a comprehensive plan for managing and protecting Lake Ontario and the other Great Lakes.
More than five years in the making, the compact is designed to prevent other parts of the country or world from poaching water from the Great Lakes, the world's single largest source of fresh water. It also sets up a conservation plan for states and Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes."