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Article: Water availability: an overview of issues and future challenges for the St. Lawrence River.
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- Quebec Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Introduction
For some years now, water availability in the St. Lawrence River has been an inherent part of the larger issues threatening the integrity of its aquatic ecosystems. The St. Lawrence system (including the Great Lakes) is among the three largest in North America, alongside the Mackenzie and Mississippi rivers, in terms of basin size and flow rate. Located downstream of the international section (Kingston to Cornwall, Ontario), the Quebec portion of the St. Lawrence comprises four major bio-geographic units: the fluvial section, which is primarily influenced by Great Lakes inflows, the freshwater tidal portion of the fluvial estuary, the saltwater ...