Phosphates from the human "biosolids" used to fertilize farms are fueling potentially toxic algae blooms in Lake Washington, a main source of drinking water in Brevard County, new sampling shows.
As flights and field seasons are canceled, some scientists see building capacity at the local level as an opportunity to keep vital work alive — and possibly reshape the way remote research is done.
A sweeping water quality measure was approved Friday by the Florida Senate, with supporters calling it a major step toward easing runoff that has fed algae blooms.
For Florida, decades of huge population growth and increased agricultural irrigation have reduced the levels of the Floridan Aquifer, an underground system of water-filled rocks that stretches 100,000 square miles and includes parts of southern Georgia and Alabama. Is there enough water to go around?
The net result of the rule change, officials and conservationists say, will be another setback for the multi-state and federal effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay.
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