Lakes

Find out how lakes work by visiting Water on the Web (WOW). This website and its companion Lake Access also use intensive real-time water quality data and interactive data visualization and animation tools to see how lakes work and respond to differences in their watersheds and climate and to land-use changes caused by humans.

For a short overview of Lake Ecology, visit the WOW Lake Ecology Primer.

For more information about the major water quality issues affecting our lakes, visit:

• WOW Water Quality Primer
• Lake Access
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Lakes in Minnesota
• Minnesota DNR Lakes
• University of Minnesota Extension Shoreland Education
• Wisconsin DNR's Lakes website
• University of Wisconsin Extension Lakes Program