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Is Farm Pollution Threatening Drinking Water Supplies?

by The Investigative Newswire on April 30, 2012 · comment
More of that Anheuser-Busch canned drinking water. (Tastes terrible BTW) photo: Wikimedia Commons

by Environmental Working Group Water that runs off fields treated with chemical fertilizers and manure is loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus, two potent pollutants that inevitably end up in rivers and lakes and set off a cascade of [...]

Categories: Water - Tags: algal blooms, chemicals, drinking water, farm runoff, farming, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorous, pollution

How a Man-made Sea Became a Dead Zone

by The Investigative Newswire on April 2, 2012 · comment
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, a common trait among dead zones. photo: Wikimedia Commons

America’s Dead Sea by Jim Lo Scalzo Deep in the desert of southern California sits one of the worst environmental sites in America—a former tourist destination that has turned into a toxic soup: the Salton Sea. The sea [...]

Categories: Water - Tags: agriculture run-off, california, colorado river, dead sea, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorous, toxic water

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