algal blooms

Officials with the U.S. and Canada met this past week to discuss priorities for the next three years on protecting the ecology, water quality and health of the ecosystem in Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes.

Many of Ohio’s waterways have faced bacterial contaminations this summer. It has a lasting impact on lake and riverfront town economies.

For more than a decade, algal blooms have turned many Ohio waterways into thick, green mush, choking fish and turning the water toxic to humans. Runoff…