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.

About 40.8 billion gallons of water a day were withdrawn from the Great Lakes basin last year, a 3% decrease compared to the previous year, a study found.

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.

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 ...

Line 5, owned by Calgary-based Enbridge, transports over 20 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids from Wisconsin to Ontario each day via the Straits of Mackinac, which connect lakes ...