While the world's lakes dry up, Lake Manitoba expands

Environmental | 206834 hits | Jun 04 9:34 am | Posted by: Curtman

Lake Manitoba is all but unique among the planet's 40 largest lakes in that it's growing larger. In other parts of the world, large lakes are shrinking in what amounts to one of the planet's most horrific environmental disasters.

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by martin14
Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:30 pm
Curtman better watch out, we'll be coming with canteens real soon !
by GreenTiger
Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:12 pm
How much are Canada's great Lakes endangered by Asian Carp?
by Anonymous
Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:32 pm
"martin14" said
Curtman better watch out, we'll be coming with canteens real soon !

No thanks.. We're good.

In stark contrast, Lake Manitoba -- officially the planet's 33rd-largest inland body of water -- is expanding to the point where it may have already overtaken Ontario's Lake Nipigon (No. 32) and what's now called the South Aral Sea (No. 31).

Those are hydro electric dollars accumulating.
by Anonymous
Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:32 pm
"GreenTiger" said
How much are Candada's great Lakes endangered by Asian Carp?

Never heard of them.
by andyt
Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:09 pm
A thin, underwater "electric fence" in a canal near Chicago, and vigilance by governments and citizens, are all that prevent a group of invasive fish species from disrupting aquatic ecosystems across the Great Lakes.

Four species of Asian carp, the grass, bighead, silver, and black, could readily move from the United States into Canada. Freshwater fisheries scientist Nick Mandrak, of the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (GLLFAS) in Burlington, Ontario, says that "people tend to think of Asian carp as semi-tropical. But I've seen them thriving under a metre of ice in frozen Russian lakes. They could survive right across Canada. And they can do great damage."
by Anonymous
Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:28 pm
I think what we all want to know is:

How do they taste?
by fifeboy
Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:35 pm
"Curtman" said
I think what we all want to know is:

How do they taste?
by fifeboy
Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:40 pm
by Anonymous
Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:42 pm
That Darwin guy should never have invented Evolution. It's all gone downhill since then.
by fifeboy
Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:37 pm
"Curtman" said
That Darwin guy should never have invented Evolution. It's all gone downhill since then.
by ShepherdsDog
Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:29 pm
While the lakes in Manitoba are currently spilling over their shores, this expansion could ultimately mean their death. The problem is that they, and the rivers(Red, Souris and Assiniboine to name but a few) are silting up and the water has no place else to go but over the shoreline and into the surrounding land. These lakes are getting shallower(even as a kid I could walk out about 1/2 a mile and the water only came up to mid calf) with larger surface areas which in the end, that means higher rates of evaporation if the summers prove to be hotter. I've had a few friends around Dauphin who've lost their cottages at Ochre Beach and Crescent Cove this past week when they had a windstorm....all the sandbagging was pointless and the EMO is telling them to take any valuables out of their homes and cottages now.

Bewtween silting and agricultural run off and sewage, the lakes are dying.
by Anonymous
Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:17 am
"ShepherdsDog" said
Bewtween silting and agricultural run off and sewage, the lakes are dying.

Yep.. Lake Agassiz is dead already.

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