With a major Great Lakes restoration program set to expire this year and infrastructure funding nearing its end, freshwater advocates traveled to the nation’s capital last week to press Congress to maintain support for clean water programs across the region.
Great Lakes Day is an annual convening of environmentalists, policy experts, scientists, and small business owners on Capitol Hill. This year marked its 20th anniversary.
Top priority this year is the reauthorization of the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), a bipartisan program that since its genesis in 2010 has invested more than $5 billion into the region and supported just shy of 9,000 restoration projects. Widely considered one of the most successful freshwater conservation efforts in the world, the GLRI is a financial lifeline for hundreds of organizations, including local fishers, farmers, nonprofits, and scientists. For every dollar invested on the GLRI, more than $3 in economic benefit is produced.
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