Great Lakes Water Authority living in Detroit. The authority has not yet set water rates (which could be variable by community), although it aims to determine rates by March 2016 and make them effective by July 1, 2016. Annual rate increases will be capped at four percent for the first ten years of the authority's existence. Great Lakes Water Authority The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is a regional water authority in the U.S. state of Michigan. It provides water and sewer services for the Southeast Michigan communities, including Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties, among others. The Great Lakes Water Authority was created in
Kawartha Lakes (Ontario) Kawartha Lakes (Ontario) The Kawartha Lakes (/kə'wɔrθɐ/) are a chain of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes are located on the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central Ontario. "Kawartha" is an anglicization of the word "Ka-wa-tha" (from "Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug" or "Gaa-waategamaag"), a word coined in 1895 by aboriginal Martha Whetung of the Curve Lake First Nations. It was hoped that the word, which meant "land of reflections" in the Anishinaabe language, would provide a convenient and popular