The agency's preliminary analysis shows green infrastructure is more expensive to use to prevent sewage entering rivers than pipes and other gray infrastructure in most locations.
In Indiana, where the Ohio River heads for the Mississippi, one activist is trying to convince Red State residents that protecting the Ohio is important.
Like the rivers, Route 65 is a sort of connective tissue, linking people and places across the region. Black residents living in communities along the roadway describe where they live and their experiences, in the context of their connections to water.
A new analysis of satellite imagery shows how a section of West Virginia with the most strip-mine damage from the coal industry is also the most susceptible to increased streamflow.
Experience the Cheat River in a 360-degree video. Not so long ago, the river ran orange from acid mine drainage, but revitalization efforts have brought the waters back to life.
For degawëno:da’s, paddling the length of the Allegheny River over the course of four months this year was to be a “witness to the raw element of the natural world.”
The biggest difference between now and before the Clean Water Act is that citizens who have grown up with it have come to expect clean water, and they aren’t happy when the river gets polluted.
