The Three-Eyed Fish That Is Drawing Attention to Raw Sewage and Toxic Pollution in the Great Lakes
It is important to note, particularly given the predictions of an increasing shortage of fresh water due to global warming, that the Great Lakes (fly over country) contain 1/5th of the world's non-saltwater supply. If these five large bodies of water, along with the thousands of smaller lakes in the upper Midwest and lower cental Canada, are polluted, the North American fresh water reserve will be devastated.
This brings us to the curious three-eyed walleye found in Lake Nipissing, a large lake in Ontario that is in the Great Lakes Basin, which Vice.com describes as:
Home to more than 4,000 species, including 100 rare plants and animals, many of which are on the brink of extinction. It stretches 244,000 square kilometers, holds 5,000 tributaries and 30,000 islands. In short, the basin is the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth. And it’s under attack.
Indeed - not to pile on the likely pending catastrophe of an eco-spheric breakdown due to toxic emissions that will cause havoc in the oceans, send global temperatures soaring, kill off an enormous number of species and cause mass migration - our fresh water is at risk, the Vice article points out, due to the ecological altering reality of daily sewage contamination:
Each year, billions of litres of raw sewage are dumped into its waters by way of combined sewer overflows from antiquated wastewater systems and bypasses at municipal treatment plants. The latter process is a deliberate discharge that occurs during heavy rainstorms, spring snowmelt and power failures....
“Sewage is not a very sexy topic. It doesn’t get a lot of attention, which is why we want to get this information out there,” [Liat Podolsky, Ecojustice staff scientist] says. “The fact that billions of litres of untreated or partially treated sewage are still going into the waters is a telling fact that the problem is not under control.”
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-three-eyed-fish-that-is-drawing-attention-to-raw-sewage-and-toxic-pollution-in-the-great-lakes
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