Groundwater

IRRWB Twenty Sixth Annual Progress Report

IRRWB Twenty Fifth Annual Progress Report

IRRWB 24th Annual Progress Report

Souris River Water Quality Trends Examined in Report and StoryMap

How has water quality changed over time in the Souris River basin? 

A report that examines trends from 1970-2020 will help inform work by the International Joint Commission’s (IJC) Souris River Board. 

Building Consensus for Prioritizing Groundwater Protections in the Great Lakes

Water flows through a single cycle from air to surface water and groundwater, or from land to lakes and streams, evaporating and beginning its journey all over again.

A Fluid Concept: Modeling the Complicated Relationship Between Great Lakes Groundwater and Surface Water

Because it’s largely unseen, it may be difficult to imagine that the volume of groundwater in the Great Lakes basin is about equal to the volume of Lake Michigan.

A Deep Dive into Groundwater Governance

What do Midwesterners do in a drought like the one that some of our region is experiencing? Turn on the lawn sprinklers and irrigators? That is an approach of the water-rich when faced with brown grass or a compromised crop.

The Sixth Great Lake is Under Your Feet

It’s natural to stand on the shoreline of one of the Great Lakes and admire their vastness and majesty. But another abundant water resource in the basin is out of sight and rarely commands such appreciation.

Second Triennial Assessment of Progress on Great Lakes Water Quality (TAP)

Review of Canada-US Great Lakes Programs Advises Improvements to Binational Cooperation on Climate, Nutrients

Now more than ever, it’s time to embrace binational cooperation to ensure that the waters and people of the Great Lakes basin are healthy.