Tag: runoff
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The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine
A sample of tap water taken in Flint, Michigan. Photograph: Garrett MacLean/The Guardian Industrial runoff and lax standards have tainted water across the US. Senators and doctors are calling me, asking what to do When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time about water. Sometimes, we would…
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The burning question: How do wildfires impact watersheds?
Photo: Site of the Brian Head wildfire in Utah still showing clear impacts more than a year after the fire Image Credit: arbyreed (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Article: Maina, F. Z., & Siirila‐Woodburn, E. R. (2020). Watersheds dynamics following wildfires: Nonlinear feedbacks and implications on hydrologic responses. Hydrological Processes , 34 (1), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13568 For people…
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Government is Scaling Back Water Quality Protections. Surfers are Picking up the Slack.
Photo: A surfer rides a wave against the industrial backdrop of Lake Michigan. (Credit: Mike Killion/Courtesy of Surfrider) Decades ago, California surfers decided to fight coastal pollution. Today, their massive network of citizen scientists is monitoring water quality in places the government doesn’t. In 1984, a small group of California surfers were fed up with…
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California now requires storm water permits for certain business licenses
Photo: Swimmers make their way up the Russian River in the Barb’s Tri, a triathlon for women at the Healdsburg Memorial Beach on Saturday. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat) Here’s what you need to know In the 1990s the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified storm water runoff from industrial land use properties as a source…
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Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
At the 8th Binational Meeting of the Lake Erie Millennium Network, 125 scientists gathered at the University of Windsor in Ontario to hear experts weigh-in on the health of the southernmost, warmest and shallowest of the Great Lakes. They presented research on everything from climate change, water quality, phosphorous, agricultural run-off, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), hypoxia…
