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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller.' – Delco Times

Plastic pollution threatens the health of humans and wildlife, and the well-being of the region's aquatic habitats and green spaces.

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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller.' – The Oakland Press

Plastic pollution threatens the health of humans and wildlife, and the well-being of the region's aquatic habitats and green spaces.

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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller.' – The Morning Sun

Plastic pollution threatens the health of humans and wildlife, and the well-being of the region's aquatic habitats and green spaces.

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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, 20-year study shows: And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller."

86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, 20-year study shows: And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller."
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86% of litter in Great Lakes is plastic, 20-year study shows

86% of litter in Great Lakes is plastic, 20-year study shows
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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, which is 'just getting smaller and smaller,' a 20-year study shows

A report from the Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of litter entering the lakes in a given year contains plastic.

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86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller.'

86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is 'just getting smaller and smaller.'
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New research effort seeks to tell us how microplastics get into Lake Ontario and what they do to us

New research effort seeks to tell us how microplastics get into Lake Ontario and what they do to us
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New research effort seeks to tell us how microplastics get into Lake Ontario and what they do to us

New research effort seeks to tell us how microplastics get into Lake Ontario and what they do to us
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Tracking and tracing water consumption for informed water sensitive intervention through machine learning approach

To develop a water conscious strategy, it is critical to track and trace water from its source to the end users, understand water conservation behaviors, and identify the factors that influence water consumption. However, in developing nations, little research has been done to provide a quantitative picture of how water is consumed and transformed in urban households, as well as the water sensitive interventions needed to improve access to clean water. Hence, the main objective of the study was to determine the most significant residential water consumption variables and to predict residential water consumption in a way that can generate water consumption information for water sensitive intervention decision making using the case study of Adama city in Ethiopia. A combination of top down and bottom up data collection techniques were employed as the data collection instrument. Machine learning was integrated with spatial and socioeconomic analytic techniques to estimate daily household water consumption and identify the factors that significantly influence household water consumption. The results show that there is only “one source option” for the city’s clean water supply and that different water harvesting methods are not likely to be developed. The average daily water consumption per person is 69 liters which falls below the national standard of 80 liters allocated per person per day. The result reveals that the water distribution network covers only 45% of the city master plan. About 38% of the water demand is unmet and 30% of households only receive water once every three days or fewer. This shows that the city is experiencing physical and economic water scarcity. The results demonstrated that family size, housing quality, income, number of rooms, legal status of the parcel, supply reliability, climate, and topographical features are the most important factors in predicting residential water consumption. This study further demonstrates how well supervised machine learning models, such as the Random Forest Regression algorithm, can predict the household’s daily water consumption. The findings also showed that there is a need for significant improvements in water saving habits of the households. Another conclusion that can be drawn is that as long as the city’s business as usual water consumption practice doesn’t change, the water supply problem will worsen over time.

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