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Our Water.
This Is Our Fight.
Twenty-one percent of the world's fresh surface water sits in the Great Lakes Basin. Forty million people drink from it. Hundreds of species depend on it. The legal system that was supposed to protect it was written to protect the corporations threatening it instead. We are building the movement to change that.
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