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The two Great Lakes surrounding Lower Michigan continue to lose water and are way down from the record highs just two years ago. ... Lake Huron lose over 3 trillion gallons of water in November.
The state touches four of the five Great Lakes, including the deepest one, Lake Superior, which holds 3.2 quadrillion gallons -- more than half of all Great Lakes water.
This usually happens in the fall, but the levels of all the Great Lakes are lower than they were one year ago. ... That’s a loss of over 3.5 trillion gallons of water in just a year’s time.
Overall, only 5.5% of withdrawn Great Lakes water, 2.3 billion gallons per day, was consumed or otherwise lost in 2013. That sounds like a huge amount, and it is.
Total water withdrawals (which encompass uses from public supply to many industrial uses) for all five Great Lakes were 35.4 billion gallons of water per day, 13% lower than that used in 2022.
About 40.8 billion gallons of water a day were withdrawn from the Great Lakes basin last year, a 3% decrease compared to the previous year, a study found.
MICHIGAN, USA — After a stretch of cold weather, the Great Lakes have seen substantial icing with 3 of 5 lakes reporting above average ice cover. Lake Michigan is one of these icier-than-average ...
The five Great Lakes have a combined surface area of 94,250 square miles, roughly the size of the United Kingdom. And they vary greatly, with depths ranging from 210 feet in Lake Erie to over ...