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Water Quality

Ag Pollution Is Keeping Des Moines Water Works Busy. Can It Keep Up?

By Nina B. Elkadi

Health alert signs warn of a toxic blue-green algae bloom on Lake Jesup in Sanford, Florida. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Finds Lakes in Minority Communities Across the US Are Less Likely to be Monitored

By Lydia Larsen

The steady increase in harmful algal blooms has spurred residents and officials around Owasco Lake to develop proposed enforceable rules to minimize the phosphorous and nitrogen runoff from farms in their watershed. Credit: New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August

By Peter Mantius

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

Agata Poniatowski, Billion Oyster Project’s public outreach program manager, points out the different marine organisms on an oyster cage at WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

For Marine Species Across New York Harbor, the Oyster Is Their World

By Lauren Dalban

Chemours supports the EPA’s proposed rule to rescind drinking water standards for GenX and several other PFAS compounds. Credit: Chemours

North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Lisa Sorg

A morning haze settles over the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, in July 2023 near Centreville, Maryland. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

The Chesapeake Bay Program Isn’t Likely to Hit Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

By Aman Azhar

The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense

A view of an oil well adjacent to the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas on Feb. 24, 2020. NGL Water Solutions Permian has proposed to discharge treated produced water into the reservoir. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Angie Mestas, a schoolteacher, used a lifetime of savings to drill a drinking well on her land in Los Sauces, Colorado. But she won't drink from it until she tests for arsenic and E. coli, which are common in the area. Credit: Melissa Bailey for KFF Health News

As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Rises

By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News

Workers with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works distribute jugs of water to city residents at the Landsdowne Branch of the Baltimore County Library on Sept. 6, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The City of Baltimore issued a boil water advisory to over 1,500 residential and commercial facilities in West Baltimore after E. coli bacteria was found in drinking water. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

West Baltimore Residents, Students Have Mixed Feelings About Water Quality After E. Coli Contamination

By Darreonna Davis

Protesters call for a stop to the Williams natural gas pipeline ) during a demonstration in New York City. Credit: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

New York’s Use of Landmark Climate Law Could Resound in Other States

By Kristoffer Tigue

Biofuel Grass a Heavy Drinker

By Lisa Song

Water Quality, Scarcity Increasingly Becoming Business Risks

By Amy Westervelt

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