Don’t you just hate it when… there’s raw sewage in your local rivers? Unfortunately, this is the case all too often with over 850 billion gallons of raw or partially treated sewage flowing into our streams, rivers and lakes every year.

The Healing Our Waters Great Lakes Coalition, of which American Rivers is a member, recently published a report, Solving Region’s Sewage Crisis Will Create Jobs, Restore Great Lakes, highlighting the sewage overflows that plague Great Lakes Communities – and will only get worse given the increased storms associated with climate change predicted for the region. The report recommends both increasing investment in water infrastructure funding and using green infrastructure to cost effectively reduce stormwater runoff that triggers sewer overflows in many older cities in the Great Lakes and across the country.

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