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Lake Erie

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The shallowest and smallest by volume of the five Great Lakes, bordered by the United States and Canada and drained northward over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario. Its comparatively warm, shallow waters have made it especially vulnerable to algal blooms in recent decades.

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