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Low Mississippi River levels are again making it more expensive to transport crops in the Midwest
River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...
Mississippi River water levels are dangerously low—which is trouble for both farmers and supply chains
Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...
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Brackish water creeping up the Mississippi River may threaten Louisiana’s drinking supply
An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again ...
Plan to annex Mobile's drinking water source hits pushback: 'We don’t want restrictions'
After learning of a possible plan to annex the lake by their land, a group of people living west of Mobile say they don’t ...
The Atlantic3d
To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain
Santa Cruz’s map shows an oval expanse, covering the whole Mississippi Delta and stretching north to include ... The map had ...
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Can advocates use a turtle to fight a huge Pearl River engineering project?
Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...
A turtle and its advocates could stand in the way of a huge Pearl River engineering project
On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern, Noah Devros dives ...
The Gazette4d
Survey finds Latino voters concerned about Mississippi River health, environment
A map of the Mississippi River basin and the river’s major tributaries. (Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk/Data via U.S.