April 13, 2012--Drought expands throughout USA (USA Today)
The USA hasn't been this dry in five years. Still reeling from devastating drought that led to at least $10 billion in agricultural losses across Texas and the South in 2011, the nation is enduring...
View ArticleJuly 28, 2014--Clean water is good for business (US News)
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire for the 13th time in its sad 100 year history as an industrial dump and sewer. The fire, commemorated in song, spurred the creation of the Environmental...
View ArticleAugust 2, 2014--Toledo can’t drink its water--there’s an economics lesson...
Politicians in Toledo, Ohio, love to fight about what should be built in their city and where. Nine years ago, in the midst of a mayoral campaign, the big fight was over whether to build a Costco in a...
View ArticleAugust 5, 2014--It’s not just Ohio—poisonous algae blooms now plague 20 US...
The source of northern Ohio’s water the scarcity comes from further north: the green slick covering Lake Erie. It may look no more pernicious than a wheat-grass smoothie, but this bloom of green-blue...
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