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Water Us | Field Work

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Water Us | Field Work

Water knowledge questions had to do with how many Americans are burdened by the cost of water, how many get their water shut off, and the functions wetlands serve. On average, people answered less than half of those types of knowledge questions correctly.

Trust in Food, a Farm Journal initiative aimed at empowering farmers to adopt conservation practices, conducted a similar survey, gathering responses from over 900 farmers in 43 states, representing production in all nine of the USDA agriculture resource regions. The idea was to see where farmers mirrored the general population of the U.S., and where they might differ.

“Farmers do understand hydrologic cycles,” Kinsie Rayburn, Program Officer at Trust in Food, found. They have a high level of understanding how wetlands function, where rain water goes, and the source of the water they use in their day-to-day lives.

US Supreme Court Rules Against Maui In Major Clean Water Case

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US Supreme Court Rules Against Maui In Major Clean Water Case

The case revolves around a Maui County wastewater treatment plan in Lahaina that pumps millions of gallons of treated sewage into the groundwater each day using underground injection wells.

That groundwater, mixed with treated sewage, then travels underground and seeps into the ocean where studies have shown that it promotes algae growth that suffocates and kills the coral reefs and other marine life.

Several environmental groups, including the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation and West Maui Preservation Association, filed a lawsuit in 2012, saying that the county needed a permit under the Clean Water Act if it was going to discharge pollutants into a federal waterway. The lower courts agreed, citing long-standing interpretations of the law.

A Worsening Problem for New York’s Wastewater System – New York League of Conservation Voters

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Fatbergs: A Worsening Problem for New York’s Wastewater System – New York League of Conservation Voters

As people cook at home and disinfect their households more frequently due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, fatbergs are becoming a worsening problem. A combination of the words fat and iceberg, fatbergs are large masses of common household trash items that do not belong in the water works including cleaning wipes, grease, and various personal hygiene products. Improper disposal means clogged pipes, sewage backups, damaged equipment at wastewater treatment plants.

Many popular products that are marketed as “flushable,” including disinfecting wipes, do not disintegrate in water. Wastewater is treated in three main steps: physical, chemical, and biological. However, the physical treatment step is being severely slowed by massive amounts of products that are obstructing the filters.