The Nation - News from Feb. 12, 1985
Leaders of eight states and a Canadian province pledged in Milwaukee to protect the Great Lakes region’s huge supplies of fresh water from diversion to parched parts of the continent. Gov. James J. Blanchard of Michigan, one of six governors attending a ceremony to sign the Great Lakes Charter, called it both a milestone and a message for the Sun Belt states that consider the Great Lakes, which hold 20% of the world’s fresh water, a possible remedy to their water-supply problems.
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