Factory farming is devastating rivers, lakes, and estuaries from industrial agriculture at swine, poultry, and dairy facilities. Waterkeeper Alliance senior attorney Kelly Hunter Foster manages the organization’s Clean Water Defense and National Pure Farms, Pure Waters campaigns to regulate runoff from factory farming. Kelly Hunter Foster’s background and experience with factory farming pollution has made […]
As the climate changes and the Earth warms, predicting future water availability will become increasingly challenging. Enter the climate model. It’s hard to predict how the future will look when the data from the past doesn’t look anything like conditions we see in the present, especially when we know what extremes the future holds. Still, […]
Our climate and environment impact and are impacted by water. Find out how you can reduce your impact on all three. Climate change happens when we alter our surrounding environment and our natural world. Climate change, in turn, can have a direct impact on water resources, through, for example, causing droughts to become more extreme […]
Tired of worsening toxic blue-green algae in Lake Erie, the city of Toledo, Ohio fought back in a novel way by voting in favor of a Bill of Rights for the smallest Great Lake. The approved ballot measure requests an amendment to the Toledo city charter that asserts Lake Erie and its watershed hold the […]
The environmental impact of food includes impacts to water. This is driven in part because agriculture uses a lot of water. The Environmental Impact of Food Includes Water The environmental impact of growing food and raising animals extends to the air, land and, yes, water. The food choices you make have consequences, some more damaging […]
According to a new EWG report, the drinking water supplies for millions of people living in farm country are compromised because of a pollutant associated with agriculture: nitrate. Excessive nitrates spawn harmful algal blooms that form “dead zones” and, in infants, can cause the potentially deadly “blue baby syndrome.” According to EWG, “Drinking water supplies for more than 200 million Americans […]
Farm country and rain might not always mix because, sometimes, when it rains it pours…nitrogen pollution into rural waterways especially after periods of drought. A recent study makes that link and begs the question: What will happen to water in farm country if this pattern keeps up? Farm country around the world heats up from […]
Wildfire pollution affects drinking water to the point where consumers can see, smell and taste the pollutants. Water utilities face a threat to water quality. Wildfire pollution is so bad in Western states that it has affected water quality in numerous communities. Water utilities must prepare for this constant threat to water quality. An unanticipated […]
The contiguous United States experienced the wettest 12-month period ever recorded, finds the latest report from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. According to NOAA, the average precipitation across the lower 48 states for July 2018 to June 2019 was 37.86 inches, which is 7.90 inches above average and reached a historic high. The earlier […]
