Tag: water
MWCD board cuts assessments in half
Property owners will see their assessments paid to the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District cut in half beginning next year.
Water issues rising, are you ready?
Every farm owner, every homeowner, every consumer, plays a role in water conservation and protection.
Conservation, not regulation, to help control Lake Erie’s algae problem
Fertilizer conservation may be the answer to reducing phosphorus runoff from farms into Lake Erie, according to Mansfield News Journal.
Who practices what we preach?
Use best management practices when it comes to your conservation practices.
USGS: Report shows some naturally occurring methane in Sullivan County water
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. —Two of 20 randomly selected and tested household wells used for drinking water in Sullivan County, Pa., produced groundwater with elevated...
Water quality, nutrient use legislation is on drawing board in Ohio
Proposals from farmers and ag industry now being considered for new rules.
Expert revising Ohio’s phosphorus index to improve water quality
COLUMBUS -- Grand Lake St. Marys has lost an estimated $60-80 million in tourism due to harmful algae blooms. And in 2011, algae blooms covered 990 square miles of Lake Erie's surface area, the largest in the lake's history.
Water on the minds of many at shale gas conference in...
Water was definitely on the minds of many in attendance at the YOUNG 2012 Conference.
Food isn’t the only resource we need to worry about
Examples of how water use can be managed successfully to feed a growing world population can be found in locations as diverse as Nebraska and India, but there's no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges ahead, said the director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska.
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy puts brakes on sale of its water to...
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has halted water sales to the oil and gas industry until the conservancy district can update its water supply policy.
