Climate Friendly Farms: Agriculture Adapts to Global Warming
Farms and farmers across the U.S. are adopting climate-friendly practices to improve soil quality and save water as global warming kicks in…
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Home Water Quality Testing: Peace of Mind Has Never Been So Easy
Coliform bacteria, nitrates, total dissolved solids and unhealthy pH levels, oh my! If you are worried that your water might contain these or other contaminants, at-home water quality testing is easy and relatively inexpensive…
Beyond Flint: Water Woes Affect 18 Million Americans
According to a new report from NRDC, 5,300 different water systems across the country either shirked responsibilities to treat their water supplies to reduce lead levels, failed to monitor water supplies for lead, or neglected to report unsafe lead levels to the public or regulators.
Climate Change and Rivers
How is it that climate change is negatively affecting the health of rivers and, by extension, the quality and availability of fresh water?
Tapping into Tidal Energy
Tidal energy can potentially provide 15% of our nation’s electricity by 2030. That could spell opportunity for coastal communities across the country.
Trim Your Waste
There are some simple steps that can help each of us reduce our personal impact, such as avoiding products that come in disposable packaging.
Flowing Up?
A new study reveals that fracking chemicals can migrate upward to contaminate groundwater.
Finding Water
A review of Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World by Doc Hendley
The Seaweed and Shellfish Solution
When runoff from fertilized lawns, farms & sewage treatment plants reaches our rivers & coasts, it causes water pollution known as eutrophication.
Nonpoint Source Pollution: Scourge Of Our Waterways
Unlike pollution from specific factories and other easily discernible ‘points’, nonpoint source pollution comes from many diffuse sources.