Category: Safe Water

August 13, 2013 Time for Congress to Focus on River Health, Not Corporate Welfare  Advocates for the Mississippi River’s health are calling on Congress to use taxpayer dollars to restore the river and the economic benefits it provides to local economies and the country instead of subsidizing the destruction of critical ecosystems. A new report…

(St. Louis) – A larger than average “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is our summer reminder that nitrogen and phosphorus pollution remains one of our nation’s greatest water quality challenges. See the map (also above): http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/Research/Shelfwide%20Cruises/2013/DOMaps/ The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is an area where oxygen levels in the water are too…

New Madrid Floodway Project Is Still a Costly Boondoggle The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its 7th Draft Environmental Impact Statement in yet another attempt to find justification for a wasteful 1950’s era project in the Missouri Bootheel. See the news release here.

// Written by Brad Walker, Rivers Director        July 18, 2013 Special interest politics and the abuse of power by politicians surprise no one. However, in the interest of a diligent citizenry, we have three recent examples for your entertainment that put facts and faces to this kind of behavior; all of which are affecting the…

// Written by Brad Walker, Rivers Director        July 10, 2013 The New WRDA: A dysfunctional and effective method of wealth distribution to corporations The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which is better called the Water Resources Destruction Act, passed in the Senate on May 15, 2013 by a margin of 83 to 14. The Senate…