Camile Corder, age ll, of Indianola

 Where does Niagara get its water?

The tumbling waterfall is fed by the largest reservoir of fresh water in the entire world. Day and night, summer and winter, new supplies are funneled in to plunge down the roaring cataract. The waterfall is part of the huge waterway which drains the surplus waters from the Great Lakes to the sea. The rainfall and the melting snow are gathered up by countless streams and emptied into the lakes and the lakes empty one into another.

The surplus waters of Lake Erie must flow to Lake Ontario which sends them down the St. Lawrence river to the Atlantic Ocean ‑ but the surface of Lake Erie is more than 300 feet higher than Lake Ontario. These two lakes are connected by the narrow Niagara river, about 35 miles long. About halfway along this winding stream, the waters tumble over a rocky cliff and make the famous Niagara Falls.