Human Health
The governments of Canada and the United States committed to maintaining the Great Lakes as a source of safe, high-quality drinking water when they signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Across the Great Lakes basin, hundreds of water utilities treat water from the Great Lakes and deliver safe, high-quality drinking water to nearly 40 million residents.
Are you a health expert interested in the link between water quality and public health? Do you want to help guide the future of Canada-United States cooperation on protecting and restoring the Great Lakes basin and transboundary ecosystems?
In the early 1900s, concerns about waterborne illnesses and overall water quality prompted the governments of Canada and the United States to direct the International Joint Commission to undertake one of the largest-ever studies monitoring untreated sewage pollution in the boundary waters of the…
The IJC’s Health Professionals Advisory Board and the Great Lakes Beach Association are collaborating on a public health initiative to assess the binational extent, experience and effects of Great Lakes beach sanitary surveys in the United States and environmental health and safety surveys in…
The Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium continues to grow since its launch in the fall of 2020.