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Experts fear nation’s waterways need rescuing; “every region of the country will eventually be affected either by water pollution or overconsumption”

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 23, 2008 at 5:29 am

From the Associated Press:

Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree.  One down, thousands more to go.

Lowe and dozens of volunteers spent a recent day planting native trees along a half-mile stretch of the Santa Fe River that has been reduced to a dry, sandy wash.  “We’ve got to do something and this is one little place we can do it,” Lowe says, wiping sweat from her brow. “And if we multiply that by thousands of other places around the world, think of what we can do.”

Federal agencies, states, tribes and concerned citizens are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours on waterway restoration projects to reverse decades of poor management and combat the mounting threats of population and climate change.

Nationally, there are more than 37,000 river restoration projects underway, costing more than $1 billion annually, according to a study released this month by Colorado College.  Andrew Fahlund, vice president for conservation for American Rivers, said every region of the country will eventually be affected either by water pollution or overconsumption.

“Look at the southeastern United States right now and you would think you were in the midst of the Colorado River basin,” he said. “They’re having good old fashion water wars in Georgia and most people associate Georgia with verdant hills and full streams.”

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April 23, 2008 · Filed Under National water news

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