From Great Lakes Wiki
The Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives campaign by the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition seeks to restore water quality in the Great Lakes by building public support necessary to motivate legislators.
Their message is meant to inspire, emphasize urgency and present a manageable solution in order to give the public a reason to be engaged:
The Great Lakes are essential to the economic and cultural identity of our region. Forty-two million people depend on the Great Lakes for their drinking water.
Today, the health of our Lakes is seriously threatened by problems such as untreated sewage and invasive species.
The good news is we have manageable solutions to these problems. The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy is a comprehensive plan to modernize sewage treatment, clean-up polluted harbors, restore wetlands and prevent unwanted, new species from invading the lakes. Each of these steps is essential if we are to restore the lakes and safeguard our Great Lakes way of life.
It is time we use these solutions. Every day we wait, the problems get worse and the solutions get more costly. We must act now to restore the health of the Great Lakes.
Congress must enact the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy to protect our drinking water, our economy, our health, our way of life.
--Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives Message Kit
Getting the Message Out on Great Lakes Restoration
