What is the right price for water? It depends on whom you ask. Every community has unique needs and must decide what it wants to achieve with water rates—revenue recovery, revenue stability, affordability, economic development, encouraging efficient use of water, to name a few. This factsheet discusses rate design to encourage efficient water use, in other words, conservation pricing.

What are the most critical concerns facing Lake Michigan? The Great Lakes Regional Research and Information Network (GLRRIN) Lake Michigan team set out to answer this question by bringing together more than 50 government and academic researchers over several meetings to share what’s known, what isn’t, and what information would be most valuable to inform resource managers and others interested in the health of the lake.

This report discusses stakeholder perceptions of the Lower Rouge River in the Rouge River Area of Concern (AOC) and attitudes toward a cleanup being performed under the Great Lakes Legacy Act.

Learn about the pros and cons of using two different methods to establish a new lawn.

This strategic plan for 2018-2021 lays out IISG goals and outcomes in three National Sea Grant focus areas: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Resilient Communities and Economies, and Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development.

An overview pamphlet on efforts to improve the Great Lakes through pollution prevention, monitoring, cleanups, and education.