Great Lakes Basin
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Through Canada and Drainage basin
The Basin is at the center of the Great Lakes region.
Demographics
The basin is home to 37 million people. It hosts seven of Canada's 20 largest census metropolitan areas, namely Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, London, St. Catharines–Niagara, Windsor, and Oshawa. Also, the American cities of Duluth, Milwaukee, Chicago, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, among others, are located in the basin.
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Sub-basins
Each individual lake forms a sub-basin, such as the Lake Erie Basin, and each sub-basin consists of multiple watersheds, such as Pennsylvania's Lake Erie Watershed. The overall Great Lakes Basin is monitored by the binational Great Lakes Commission.
St. Lawrence Basin
Quebec, a portion of whose lands drain into the St. Lawrence Basin, is a signatory to the Great Lakes Charter of 1985, the 2001 Charter Annex, and the Agreements of 2005. While not a part of the Great Lakes Basin, Quebec's position along the Saint Lawrence Seaway makes it a partner in water resource management with Ontario and the eight US states mentioned above.
Nuclear power plants
There are many nuclear power plants in the Great Lakes Basin, including twenty on the Canadian side. The International Joint Commission has a report on the nuclear power plants. Nuclear Report 2019 Corrected.pdf