Over 40 million people.
One shared Basin.
The People and the Basin Are Worth Waking Up For, Fighting For, and Loving Fiercely.
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This Is
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.
21%
of the world's fresh surface water
40M+
people depend on the Great Lakes
Hundreds
of species depend on our water
One Fight
for clean water and healthy ecosystems
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Friends of the Lakes Club. Once a month, the Basin shows up at your door. A letter that tells a story of this place. A postcard to send to someone who needs to feel it too. A Basin-themed sticker. An original 4x6 artwork from a Great Lakes Basin artist. A surprise tucked inside just because. And somewhere in the pile—a Blue Blanding Turtle. Not everyone gets one. But someone does. This is connection. This is community. And it's desinged to defend this place we call home.
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