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‘I spent five days in hospital’: Surge in swimmers falling ill from polluted UK waters
A UK woman was forced to spend five days in hospital with severe gastroenteritis after swimming in the sea as ...
University of Minnesota professor, students work to identify plastics in Mississippi River
Ebtehaj works at the University of Minnesota's lab on the river at St. Anthony Falls. For the past four years, he and his ...
West Central Tribune3dOpinion
Mike Bredeson: The Crow River is polluted
From the commentary: "From Lake Koronis along the entire Minnesota state water trail ending at the Mississippi river the Crow ...
The Star-Herald4d
‘Trainwreck on the horizon’: The costly pains of Mississippi’s small water and sewer systems
This is the first of a two-part story.  “This state ain’t nothing but a big Jackson,” Central District Public Service ...
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Conservation group names Mississippi ‘most endangered’ U.S. river
The group American Rivers says the Mississippi faces threats including increased flooding and inadequate disaster prevention ...
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Half Of Our Rivers Are Too Polluted To Drink From — These 10 Are The Most In Danger
A new report reveals that half of U.S. rivers, including the Mississippi, Tijuana and Lower Rio Grande, are dangerously ...
Why Mississippi River is top of endangered rivers list. What you need to know
The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...
WWNO8d
Down the Drain: A watershed moment for America’s greatest wetlands
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of ...
Climate Crisis 247 on MSN8d
Mississippi In Great Danger Due To Climate Change
The American Rivers’ 40th annual endangered rivers list has just been released—America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2025. The ...
Is the Mississippi River endangered? New ranking says iconic river at risk.
The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...
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Bombay High Court overturns conviction of two men in water pollution case
The decision came nearly four decades after the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) filed a case in 1988 alleging violations of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. The case ...
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Mississippi City Water Manager Loses Bid for SNAP Recipient Data
City water manager isn’t a ‘federal assistance program’ Manager sought to discount SNAP recipients’ water bills A Jackson, Miss., effort to discount the water bills of low-income residents hit a ...