$79M plan steps up Detroit River cleanup. Almost $79 million worth of work is needed to help the Detroit River move closer to getting off a list of toxic hotspots in the Great Lakes area, says a new five-year plan for cleaning up the strait. Windsor Star, Ontario.
http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Detroit%20River%20plan%20steps%20cleanup/2056411/story.html
Water worries threaten U.S. push for natural gas.People living near gas drilling facilities in states including Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming have complained that their water has turned cloudy, foul-smelling, or even black as a result of chemicals used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5900FD20091001
City warns against eating fish from all its 22 lakes and ponds. Louisville Metro Parks is posting warnings not to eat fish caught in any of the 22 lakes and ponds it manages in Jefferson County because of new concerns about cancer-causing dioxins. Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091001/GREEN/910010356/City+warns+against+eating+fish+from+local+lakes+and+ponds
Study links water shortages in Southeast to population, not global warming. The drought that gripped the Southeast from 2005 to 2007 was not unprecedented and resulted from random weather events, not global warming, Columbia University researchers have concluded. New York Times [Registration Required]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/science/earth/02drought.html
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