As you know, the Great Lakes basin is the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth and holds one fifth of the world's freshwater. Community access to the Great Lakes basin’s waterfront is commonly unsafe for recreational use, largely due to industrial and municipal sources of pollution. The heaviest burden on water quality causing unacceptable levels of contamination in the Great Lakes’ basin originates from industrial and municipal sources. This includes discharges from sewage treatment plants throughout our region.
The problem of inadequate sewage treatment is particularly disturbing because sewage is not simply what gets flushed down our sinks and toilets. It typical includes a toxic mixture of human waste, animal waste, micro-organisms, disease causing pathogens and hundreds of highly toxic chemicals.
The Sierra Legal Defence Club recently released a report detailing the municipal sewage treatment and sewage discharges into the Great Lakes basin. The report considered twenty North American cities that fall within the Great Lakes basin. Windsor received one of the worst grades on how well sewage was collected, treated and disposed of. http://www.sierralegal.org/reports/great.lakes.sewage.report.nov.2006b.pdf
Please feel free to click-on, print and forward the postcard, along with any personal comments and your signature, to MP Sandra Pupatello, to inform her that you are demanding action and change.
The problem of inadequate sewage treatment is particularly disturbing because sewage is not simply what gets flushed down our sinks and toilets. It typical includes a toxic mixture of human waste, animal waste, micro-organisms, disease causing pathogens and hundreds of highly toxic chemicals.
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