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Showing posts with label lakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lakes. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Going against the current, Utah works to change an old western water rights rule to encourage conservation

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Utah Department of Agriculture and Food photo Many western states apply the "use it or lose it" rule to water rights, which penali...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Mormon Church donates reservoir of church-owned water; it hopes many others will follow suit

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Farmington Bay, a critical habitat for wildlife, feeds into the Great Salt Lake. ( Photo by James Roh, The Washington Post) In an unusual mo...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Fertilizer washed from Midwestern fields slowly poisoning Gulf of Mexico; latest story uses Illinois county as example

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Excess nitrogen fertilizer washing into the Mississippi River is slowly poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, Ignacio Calderon reports for USA Toda...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Trump boat parades last summer resulted in injuries and accidents; some boaters want to organize more this summer

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A 2020 rally at Lake Travis in Texas, where five boats capsized (Photo by Bob Daemmerich) Trump supporters across the nation staged many boa...
Monday, November 02, 2020

Wildfires threaten rural areas with expensive, lingering damage to water utilities

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"When wildfires spread across California, they leave a cascade of water problems in their wake: Some communities have their drinking wa...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Southern states, feds step up campaign against Asian carp

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Photo from Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee State and federal fish and wildlife agencies have spent about $607 million altoge...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Fertilizer use poses environmental risks, even climate change, but state-based regulation hasn't proven effective

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Orange area is annual "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, caused mainly by fertilizer in Mississippi River watershed. (Image fr...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Ohio farmers support new state program to reduce fertilizer runoff into Lake Erie that causes toxic algae blooms

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A July 30, 2019, satellite photo of Maumee Bay shows a toxic algae bloom at the western end of Lake Erie.  (NASA photo) "Ohio far...
Monday, November 04, 2019

Fish & Wildlife employs bubbles, noise to thwart Asian carp

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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials are testing some creative tactics in the battle to keep Asian carp out of Barkley Lake in Kentu...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Wildlife officials recommend you kill this air-breathing, invasive fish on sight. We say: 'Cook 'em up!'

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Northern snakehead fish ( Getty Images photo by William Cain) Georgia wildlife officials are trying to figure out how to prevent an in...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Blue-green 'algae' blooms threaten dogs and livestock

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Blue-green algae ( Kansas State University Extension photo) This time of year, it's normal to see a scum of algae in lakes and pon...