CHASING WATER

Circle of Blue's Water Detectives Reveal New Ways to Solve the Nation's Most Persistent Water Pollution Problem

Dear John —

"Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000. 

"Viewed from above, the sweeping curls painted an absurd, even mesmerizing portrait of harm on the surface of the shallowest and warmest of the five big lakes."

That's how Circle of Blue's award-winning senior editor Keith Schneider introduces us to one of the most persistent, pernicious water pollution problems facing the Great Lakes and United States: Toxic algae blooms.

With your support, and partnership with the Joyce and Erb foundations, Keith spent five months investigating the causes of this dangerous pollution. The groundbreaking series, "Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms," found that ending the scourge of dangerous pollution is eminently achievable, but requires a national imperative to change farming practices.

This news is all the more urgent as legislators are negotiating the contents of the 2023 Farm Bill.

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