SO WATERLOO REGION EVENTUALLY WANTS TO DRINK LAKE ERIE WATER?

Let's continue to hold off on that originally proposed 2035 pipeline to Lake Erie. Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record carried this story "Water ban over, Toledo drinks from tap again". Apparently the recurring joys of algal blooms have hit Lake Erie once more. This particular time the bloom was closer to our U.S. neighbours as Toledo, Ohio found it necessary to close their water intake pipe from Lake Erie. Algal blooms are a companion to warm weather plus agricultural nutrients in the water. These nutrients could include nitrogen and phosphorous among others. The algal blooms end up using oxygen from the water as well as producing a bacteria known as microsystin which is a health hazard. I believe our local PHd. biologist Dr. Henry Regier has commented in the past on various causes and exacerbating conditions leading to these issues in Lake Erie.