Lake Ontario Has Bigger Problems than Donald Trump | The Walrus

Lake Ontario, shared roughly evenly between Ontario and New York state, holds more surface fresh water than the entire American Southwest, yet the piece argues it remains the least appreciated of the Great Lakes despite a watershed population of about 11 million that has grown 40% in two decades.

The essay traces the lake's low elevation, 245 feet above sea level and the lowest of the five Great Lakes, alongside a history of pollution, development pressure and neglect that it argues matters more than any dispute over the lake's name.

It notes in passing President Trump's attempt to unilaterally rename the lake 'Lake America,' treating that episode as a sideshow next to the lake's actual ecological troubles.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.