What You Didn’t Know About That One Time Engineers Drained The Niagara Falls

Published on 01/06/2020
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US & Canada

Seeing as Niagara Falls is a natural border between Canada and the US, it belongs to both countries. From either side, it gets over 15 million tourists a year or more than 30 million tourists a year in total. So, essentially, both countries share the benefits of the waterfalls.

US & Canada

US & Canada

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Shared Benefits

Six million cubic feet of water are lost in a single minute at the Falls. Consider the devastation that a massive amount of water could wreak outside of the Falls – it could completely devastate entire cities.

 

Shared Benefits

Shared Benefits

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