; (14) Environmental Protection Agency reports that the Great Lakes contain 84% of North America's surface fresh water and about 21% of the world's supply of surface fresh water ; (15) restoring and protecting the Great Lakes and their tributaries also protects a $6,000,000,000,000 regional economy and the 1,500,000 jobs and $62,000,000,000 in wages directly connected to the Great Lakes; and (16) the Great Lakes and their tributaries also facilitate nearly $16,000,000,000 in annual spending by residents and the 37,000,000 hunters, anglers, bird watchers, and other tourists who visit the region for recreation; Whereas water pollution and the loss of water resources can cause catastrophic harm to communities’ health and economic strength, for example— (1) a harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie in 2014 prompting a three-day shutdown of Toledo, Ohio’s drinking water supply, affecting approximately 500,000 people; (2) a spill of a toxic chemical into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia, causing drinking water for approximately 300,000 people to be cut off for several days; (3) outbreaks of blue-green algae and red tide in Florida causing widespread harm to businesses, and have killed substantial numbers of aquatic animals over multiple years, with 2018 being particularly severe; (4) the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal ash waste pit near Kingston, Tennessee, experiencing a mammoth structural failure and releasing more than a billion tons of waste into the Emory and Clinch Rivers in 2008, and a 2019 analysis found that similar pits around the country routinely leak and contaminate nearby groundwater and surface waters; (5) beaches in multiple States, including Mississippi, New Jersey, Washington, and New York, being forced to close this year due to outbreaks of algae that are commonly fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus pollution; (6) intense flooding occurring in places, like Houston, Texas, where wetland destruction is believed to have contributed to the severity of the flooding