Tag: drinking water
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Water Quality and Protection
Photo: A harmful algal bloom in Milford Lake, Kansas, made the water appear bright green. Kansas Department ofHealth and Environment Safe and clean water is necessary for human and environmental health and the nation’s economic well-being. Over the past 50 years, the nation’s water quality and drinking water have improved, but threats to water quality…
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Seawater Intrusion Threatens Salinas Valley: Crisis Inaction | Opinion
The Armstrong Ranch property, which occupies both sides of Highway 1, sits atop aquifers that are impacted by seawater intrusion. Nic Coury David Schmalz here, wrestling with a conundrum: Seawater intrusion is advancing in the northern Salinas Valley—heading toward Salinas from the coast—which has forced growers to drill deeper wells, but that’s only made the problem…
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Drought Mitigation: Should We Be Farming in the Desert?
Irrigated farmland in the desert of the Imperial Valley. (Photo credit: Steve Proehl, Getty Images) Throughout the Colorado River Basin, ongoing drought is pushing agricultural technology to its limits. Just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, California’s Imperial Valley is both a desert and an agricultural wonder. Bordered by sand dunes and barren mountains, the region…
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How the NPS is protecting groundwater for people and ecosystems
A young visitor fills a bottle with fresh Roaring Springs water from the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. NPS/Michael Quinn Picture this: you’re visiting a national park in a desert landscape, and you spend your day exploring by foot in the summer heat. After seeing the sites that you had bookmarked in your…
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BWS Consultants: Thousands Of Navy Water Tests After The Red Fuel Leak Are Invalid
Navy personnel assist residents at Halsey Terrace Community Center with filling containers full of clean, usable water following the Red Hill fuel spill. Consultants hired by BWS say subsequent test results that the Navy relied on to say its water system was safe were invalid. (Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021) Residents who use the water system affected…
