Article 01/17/2013

"New water lows for Great Lakes could drain local economies" 

Why a I choose this article? 

This article like to me because I realized how the water is important not only for the live,  but also  for the industries, economy and recreation. 

Summation of the important points. 

Water in the Great Lakes is formed by the rivers Michigan and Huron that have been suffered low levels from the last 13 years. The cause of the low level come from little precipitation, low snow melt and evaporation.  

The little rain that counter the hot summer is not enough to avoid the evaporation of the water, that is  sucked from the lakes in a large amount in comparison with the rain that felt. 

The little snow that felt last winter and the melting last spring did not bring enough water,  that usually arise 1 foot compared with 4 inches last time. 

The experts said that low leveI have seen before and it is part of cycle with records from the 60's, 70's and 80's. 

Is incredible how the low levels are affecting industries, communities that depend of tourism and fishing boats.  

Most of the big ships that carry goods have to been forced to lighten the load that normal carry because it can ground in the shallow harbors when they unload.  Fishing boats can not reached the harbor because large amount of sediments that must be removed to keep clean the harbors and the congress have to approve the budge to do it. Some harbors have been forced to close for the bad conditions and others are changing to trucks and rail for bring goods. 

Many people usually are coming to the Great Lakes from the different States of the country every year for fishing. The government have stopped fishing because the salmon have been trapped in the mud for the low levels of water and the authorities must act to protect the population of fishes. This situation affect the local business that sell their products to the tourist that come on summer. 

As a part of cycle some people believe that it could be in normal conditions in a few years. 

People from the article. 

Owners of the cargo ships. 

Joss Mills, City manager of Michigan. 

Mark Breederland, an educator with Michigan SeaGrant. 

Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of watershed hydrology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit. 

Steve Christian, the owner of Dinghy's restaurant in Frankfort 

Source: 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/13/us/great-lakes-low-water/index.html