I’m back from what could possibly be described as the most awesome Fourth of July EVER! Ahhhh…. welcome back to the water news work week.
Salt Lake Tribune has a bunch of stories that will be posted as soon as they manage to get their website up and running (doh!)
KSL: Insider details state’s issue with energy study – Utah officials spent $200,000 in federal and state funds to have the study done. But when it was finished a few months ago, they sidetracked it and refused to vouch for it — after it ran into a wall of opposition from industry. The study blames Utah power plants for 202 premature deaths each year and for health and water costs up to $2 billion annually.
An interesting study of how irrigation method possibly contributes to or limits groundwater E. coli contamination…
Science: Keeping feces on the farm – Think dairy farm, and your mind may wander to images of cows grazing dewy green pastures, as glistening silos and red-walled farmhouses slumber in the distance. But something sinister is lurking in the grass: cow feces crawling with disease-causing Escherichia coli bacteria. A new study, however, reveals that these bacteria are much less likely to enter groundwater and cause illness if farmers spray their fields with water rather than flooding them, as is traditional.
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