A popular delaying tactic to avoid action used by so called “leaders” is to request funds and time to “study” the issue, often to discover what is already known many times over. This has […]
As we understand it, Valdosta was not only lax in preventing sewage spills but was also remiss in monitoring contamination downstream. Thanks to John Quarterman and Merrillee Malwitz Jipson, finally the city began to inform […]
Hopefully a federal designation would help protect the areas around the springs from those who would continue to destroy our unique water resources. Threats are presented by irrigators, water bottlers, septic tanks, some farm practices, […]
Of all the negatives from bottled water, and they are many, a new one has emerged which may be among the most serious of all; ingesting microplastics. The following statement is from PNAS: […]
Today’s Creature Feature is considered the “bumper cars of the beetle world.” They secrete a smelly substance that deters predators, their eyes are split; half under and half above allowing them to see two views […]
We have written about Santa Fe River floods distributing E.coli bacteria from flooded septic tanks and this article reveals that rising seas are doing the same thing on a large scale along the coasts. The […]
We have a cultural fixation with green lawns yet this obsession depletes our groundwater which leads to algae-filled springs. There is one simple way we can all make a difference: let our lawns brown out […]
Of interest in the article below is the link to the Environmental Working Group”s (EWG) testing of home filters for the toxic PFAs. There is an abundance of conflicting information regarding filters and how well […]
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