Decision-Support Tool Data for Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

Decision-making in the face of uncertainty, while involving multiple stakeholders with different interests and objectives that evolve over time, is a challenging element in environmental management with significant economic implications. Stakeholders will often have decision-support tools to help them make informed and thoughtful choices in a complex environmental decision-making context that accounts for value trade-offs and uncertainty. Our decision-makers currently dont usually have full information to make decisions about the lakes and the watersheds and this is evident by the recurrent algal bloom issue in Lake Erie. The aim of this project is to co-create decision-support tools with stakeholders to make informed decisions to address this algal bloom issue at Lake Erie while focusing on Agriculture, Combined Sewer Over Flows (CSO) and Bypasses from Wastewater Treatment Plants. Note, that this research is part of the Lake Futures: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Lakes and Their Watersheds: Work Package 5'. Lake Futures is a Pillar 3 project under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.