Welcome to Great Lakes, Great Read!
This “one book, one community” is a project to inspire passion and connection to the Great Lakes Watershed through reading. There is a need for greater education about the Great Lakes as an important natural resource. While approximately 34 million people in the US and Canada live in the Great Lakes Watershed, recent surveys show a lack of understanding of the threats facing the greatest freshwater resource in the world. Greater education – greater environmental literacy – is critical to cultivating stewardship of the Great Lakes and of water resources more broadly.
- Our full website is COMING SOON and our book selections will be announced on Earth Day 2024 (April 22, 2024).
- Until then, to learn more about the project, join our email list.
- To get started, please visit our Great Lakes, Great Reads (from HOMES), created during the 2020 pandemic.
- Email: askwater@aqua.wisc.edu
Great Lakes, Great Read is a project of the Great Lakes Odyssey.
Made possible by a WiLS Idea to Action Fund.
Did You Know?
More than 3,500 species of plants and animals live in the Great Lakes basin, including 170+ species of fish.
How many gallons of freshwater are in the watershed? 6 quadrillion (22.7 quadrillion liters), enough to submerge the entire continental United States in nearly 10 feet of water!
The Great Lakes contains 20% of the world’s supply of surface freshwater!
