Commentary: Persistent Toxic Substances Across the Canada-United States Border: The International Joint Commission and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Thornburn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
International Joint Commission ◽  
International Joint

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Langston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
International Joint Commission ◽  
International Joint ◽  
The 1960S

By the 1960s, the failures of research and cooperative pragmatism to control Great Lakes pollution were becoming painfully evident. In 1972 Canada and the United States signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The agreement was groundbreaking in its focus on cleaning up existing pollution and preventing new pollutants, but the International Joint Commission has no authority to force the two nations to implement recommendations. Therefore, when Canada or the United States refuses to abide by the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (in its various revisions), very little happens in response—besides calls for more research.

Intergovernmental River Basin Management: The Role of the International Joint Commission in the Great Lakes Basin between the United States and Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Bushinsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Great Lakes Basin ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
International Joint Commission ◽  
International Joint

The International Joint Commission (IJC) is an independent agency that guides Canada and the United States on how to settle disputes involving their 13 transboundary river basins. The IJC’s river basin management methods can be evaluated by using 10 principles, and its techniques can be modelled by other international transboundary water organisations. The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement serves as a case study that demonstrates how the IJC responds to situations in an immense and historically disputed basin.

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