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TORONTO - A new study by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, a Canadian environmental group, says untreated effluent that flows into the Great Lakes each year is threatening an ecosystem that supplies drinking water to millions of people, according to a November 29 article in The Globe and Mail.
Sierra Legal examined 20 cities in the US and Canada, analyzing municipal wastewater treatment and discharges into the Great Lakes basin and grading the cities in the categories of wastewater collection, treatment and disposal, the story said.
The study found the total untreated wastewater sent from the 20 cities into the basin topped about 98 billion litres (26 billion gallons) annually, with the worst offenders being the Canadian cities of Windsor, Toronto and Hamilton, as well as Detroit and Cleveland in the US, according to the article.
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