Category: Recreation
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What’s Eating Iowa?
…and what’s in its water? “The nitrate here is usually between 20 and 25 milligram per liter.” Q: And wouldn’t the University of Iowa College of Public Health say they’d like to see that about five? “So any so for human consumption it must be below 10. We now know that drinking water should probably be…
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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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Rare opportunity to kayak in Death Valley National Park
Photo: Kayaking at Badwater Basin on February 9, 2024. NPS/Michael Kohler Recent atmospheric river rejuvenated temporary lake in Badwater Basin DEATH VALLEY, Calif. – A temporary lake provides a rare opportunity to kayak in the driest place in the United States: Death Valley National Park. “You might think with no drain to the sea, that…
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Arizona’s Water Education Center will teach visitors about water conservation and reuse strategies
The new center will be located at the headquarters of Central Arizona Project, a 336-mile system that delivers water to more than 80% of the state’s population. Rendering courtesy Jones Studio Phoenix-based architecture firm Jones Studio will design the Water Education Center for Central Arizona Project (CAP)—a 336-mile aqueduct system that delivers Colorado River water to almost 6 million…
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Trash On Monterey Bay Shoreline Threatens Ecosystem: NOAA
Waves rhythmically come ashore at a Santa Cruz beach near the mouth of the marina, in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Bea Karnes/Patch) The report recommended a collective and coordinated effort on the part of individuals, producers of plastics, governments and nonprofits. MONTEREY BAY, CA — A report released on Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
