Why can sufficient water be stored on Lake Ontario to provide a buffer against low water conditions in the Thousand Islands and/or Montreal?
• Should Lake Ontario be regulated for the single purpose of maintaining water levels in the Thousand Islands and/or Montreal, a greater proportion of low water conditions could be avoided. However the regulation of Lake Ontario must take into account and balance many interests in addition to those concerns. In such a system, no one interest can be perfectly satisfied all the time to the detriment of all other interests.
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