Photo: Rebecca Meuninck (Photo Courtesy National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Office, Great Lakes Now)

By Gary Wilson - Great Lakes Now - July 20, 2023

NWF’s Great Lakes office is best known for being the de facto leader of regional collaborations that lobbied the federal and state governments to enact the Great Lakes Compact, the 2008 agreement designed to prevent diversions of Great Lakes water to arid regions of the country.

When the compact became law, potential diversions to the American West seemed unlikely. Since then though, drought has come to California, and water shortages to Arizona, and the Colorado River is in a crisis. Plus, there is talk about the U.S. needing a national water strategy which could put a spotlight again on the Great Lakes.

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