The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health is a global leader in research on world water issues, including water-borne diseases and ways to address the expected increase in global water demand as conventional water sources diminish.
When the sea lamprey invaded the Great Lakes, lake trout — once a top predator fish, and the lamprey's preferred food — were transformed into Swiss cheese and began dying out. Until scientists developed one of the most successful invasive-species-management programs in the world.
Canadian and the US have invested more than $22.8 billion in cleaning up the Great Lakes in the last 35 years -- and that's money well-spent, a new article finds, with every dollar toward cleanup catalyzing more than $3 worth of community revitalization.
