Shared Waters

According to the United Nations (UN), transboundary waters shared by two or more countries account for more than 60 percent of all freshwater flows in the world, and more than 3 billion people depend on them. This makes bilateral and multilateral cooperation essential to ensuring global access to clean water.

A recent study has found the downstream stretches of the Milk River in Montana and Alberta are especially prone to evaporation.

A bald eagle circled overhead, rousting a flock of cormorants and a great blue heron from the calm waters of the oxbow on the lower Rouge River in Detroit. As members of the IJC Great Lakes Water Quality Board looked on, Friends of the Rouge Trails Manager Herman Jenkins joked that their staff planned the avian flyover for the board’s field trip.