Originally published: 17 January 2017

This water is valuable. Why risk contamination?

Water from the Great Lakes is used by 40 million people in Canada and the United States. The lakes irrigate hundreds of millions of acres of farmland and support the world’s largest inland fishery.

Video Transcript:

The Great Lakes deliver freshwater to 40 million people in cities, towns, and villages in Canada and the United States. They irrigate hundreds of millions of acres of farmland and support the world’s largest inland fishery.

Not the most logical place to build a nuclear waste dump…