Lake Erie

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Source RAMSAR sites :https://rsis.ramsar.org

Source "Protected Areas" :World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a join project of IUCN and UNEP - Feb 2017

Source Dams Data Base - GRanDv1 : Lehner, B., C. Reidy Liermann, C. Revenga, C. Vorosmarty, B. Fekete, P. Crouzet, P. Doll, M. Endejan, K. Frenken, J. Magome, C. Nilsson, J.C. Robertson, R. Rodel, N. Sindorf, and D. Wisser. 2011. Global Reservoir and Dam Database, Version 1 (GRanDv1): Dams, Revision 01. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://dx.doi.org/10.7927/H4N877QK

The Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority

The Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority is one of the 36 Conservation Authorities in Ontario. It has jurisdiction over watersheds of all streams draining into the Thames River from Delaware to Lake St. Clair. The Southern boundary includes the watersheds of streams draining into Lake Erie, from the Talbot Creek watershed in the east,...

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Wetland Restoration in the Lower Thames Watershed

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Grand River Conservation Authority- Water Management Plan

The Grand River Conservation Authority manages water and other natural resources on behalf of 39 municipalities and close to one million residents of the Grand River watershed. The watershed is the largest in southern Ontario. The Grand flows from Dufferin County in the north to Lake Erie in the south. The GRCA, with headquarters in Cambridge, ON is the oldest water management agency in Canada and one of the oldest in the world.

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Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper 2015 River Cleanup

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Flood warning system in Grand River

The GRCA forecasts floods and issues flood warnings to municipal flood co-ordinators. The co-ordinators then implement their own local flood response plan and assist local residents. GRCA officials work closely with municipal flood co-ordinators, police, emergency management officials and others to operate, test and improve the flood warning system.

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Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER

Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER is a community-based organization dedicated to protecting the quality and quantity of water, while connecting people to water. We do this by cleaning up pollution from our waterways, restoring fish and wildlife habitat, and enhancing public access through greenways that expand parks and open space.

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USGS spawning habitat restoration for the State threatened lake sturgeon in the St. Clair River

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Welcome to the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy!

The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization located in Chautauqua County, NY. With a focus on land conservation and watershed education, the CWC has been dedicated to preserving and enhancing the water quality, scenic beauty and ecological health of the lakes, streams and watersheds of the Chautauqua region since 1990. We work with residents, landowners, landscapers, developers, contractors, public officials, governmental entities...

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Restoring Erie Marsh (The Nature Conservancy)

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"Save Maumee" : a grassroots movement

All "Save Maummee" activists have been unpaid volunteers since the birth of this grassroots movement.

(The Maumee River is a river in northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana in the United States. It is formed by the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers, through an agricultural region of glacial moraines before flowing into the Maumee Bay of Lake Erie.

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Buffalo River Restoration Project

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Upper Thames River Conservation Authority

The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) was the sixth Authority formed in Ontario, being created by Order in Council on September 18, 1947. The UTRCA covers the upper watershed of the Thames River, an area of 3,482 square kilometres. The watershed is mainly rural except for the larger urban centres of London, Stratford and Woodstock and has a total population of approximately 485,000.