Water Pollution

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a long-standing precedent that allowed landowners to sue for damages when a neighboring hog farm causes water pollution or odor problems that affect quality of life. The court concluded, 4-3, that a 2004 decision was wrong. The earlier…

The story was written by author Jenny Bailey and published by Tales from Mother Earth as the third in a series – following on from Phoebe the Bee and Spike the Hedgehog. Tales from Mother Earth and the company launched the new audio/picture story book - Stanley the Water Vole…

EPA-WATER QUALITY FUNDING EPA-WATER QUALITY FUNDING EPA to give $60M to 12 states to help curb water pollution DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government says it will distribute $60 million among 12 states that have waterways that flow into the Mississippi River to help them control farm runoff…

S cientists have called for action to be taken to tackle poor management of phosphorus which they say is worsening food and water security. The finite nutrient is extracted from phosphate rock and is an essential element in fertilisers to grow food and to increase crop yields to feed the…

BUTTE, Mont. — Steve McGrath stood in an empty lot a block from his home watching for dust. In this southwestern Montana city nicknamed “The Richest Hill on Earth,” more than a century of mining left polluted soil and water that has taken decades to clean. But at that moment,…

The Ghana Water Company has listed the debt incurred from the operation of the Desalination plant as one of the reasons why it is requesting a 300 percent increment in water tariffs. The company also listed the impact of water pollution as a result of illegal mining and sand winning…

National Justice Elena Kagan said her conservative colleagues were turning what critics have called the court's "shadow docket" into something it was never intended to be. Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 21, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP By Robert Barnes, Washington Post April…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group has filed a lawsuit against U.S. environmental officials for alleged failure to intervene after the Montana Legislature rolled back longstanding water pollution rules. The Bozeman-based Upper Missouri Waterkeeper group said a set of replacement rules proposed by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality…

Wastewater treatment produces toxins, but scientists think they can turn them into treasure. Getty Images Tuesday is World Water Day, a day set aside to draw awareness to the fact that billions of humans across the globe are living without access to clean drinking water. That's about 1 in 4…

A simple test for water pollution involving engineered strands of DNA can report levels of contamination, and this biological system can carry out logical operations like those done by computers Technology 17 February 2022 By Matthew Sparkes The DNA computer – although not set up for a formal analysis Julius…