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Are you watering your lawn wrong? USU's Water Checkers will help you figure it out

Nadia Pflaum

June 30, 2022 |

KUER Radio |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Water Checkers visit homeowners in Salt Late City for free to help asses soil quality and determine if their sprinkler systems’ water distribution is working and efficient. By participating in this program, residents have reduced their irrigation by 7,900 gallons per month, which helps keep waters in tributaries of the Great Salt Lake.

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Drinking water in short supply? There's a solution in the air.

Francine Kiefer

June 29, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

As governments and residents wrestle with drought and dwindling water supplies, atmospheric water generation systems are popping up throughout the United States as a way to convert air into water. One product, called WeDew, collects water droplets that are formed when warm air meets a cool surface. That water can be used to water plants or create safe drinking water. These air-to-water generators are being used in places from California to Uganda.

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To Cut Ocean Plastic Pollution, Aquaculture Turns to Renewable Gear

Meg Wilcox

June 27, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Freeport, Maine

Ocean Farms Supply makes and sells oyster harvest bags out of biodegradable materials, rather than plastic, to help cut down pollution. The company sells the bags locally but has also distributed them to other regions like Mexico, California, and Florida, so far replacing the use of 14 linear miles of the previously used polypropylene mesh.

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Villagers in western Tamil Nadu dislodge polluting charcoal mills after decade-long fight to save groundwater

Gowthami Subramaniam

June 07, 2022 |

101 Reporters |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Kangeyam, Tamil Nadu

After years of protesting, attending public grievance meetings, and appearing as plaintiffs in court cases, the residents of Kangeyam, India, gained enough attention to shut down the charcoal industries that were polluting the groundwater.

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How Stony Brook University Scientists Gave Shinnecock Bay a New Life

Rafael Cruvinel

June 02, 2022 |

SBU J-Drive |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

After planting clams in Shinnecock Bay in 2012, scientists at Stony Brook University were able to reverse the trends of red tide in the coastal New York waters. The bay restoration project resulted in 400,000 square meters of seagrass regrowth and the local clam population significantly grew.

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Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

Kayla Devault

May 31, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Wewoka, Oklahoma

Indigenous communities are combining traditional knowledge and new technology to improve food production for its people. For example, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma partners with the startup Symbiotic Aquaponic that uses fish and plants in water to grow traditional foods like corn, pole beans, and squash. It can be expensive to get started, but the system uses less water than industrial agriculture and provides key nutrition for members of the tribe.

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Saving the Great Lakes, one laundry load at a time

Erika Engel

May 13, 2022 |

CollingwoodToday |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Parry Sound, Ontario

A pilot experiment in Canada shows that adding a filter on a washing machine can prevent microfibers from entering the wastewater system and ending up in marine ecosystems. After installing these filters on machines in a community, there was a 41 percent decrease of microfibers in the washing machine liquid waste. This will not keep all microfibers from ending up in the environment, but legislators are working on passing bills requiring manufacturers to get these filters installed on new machines.

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Eco-friendly firefighting foam is based on soap

Yui Sawada

May 11, 2022 |

J-Stories |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Japan, Fukuoka

Shabondama Soap, a company based in Japan, manufactures an eco-friendly foam extinguishing agent that can be used to fight wildfires. After an experiment showed that the shop can put out a fire quickly and with less water, the company started introducing it to other regions of the world including Indonesia and Thailand.

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Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

Céilí Doyle

April 22, 2022 |

The GroundTruth Project |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake

Amy Joi O'Donoghue

April 22, 2022 |

KUER Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Chile

Burdened by extreme drought, water diversions, and a lack of regulation, Lake Acuelo in Chile dried up. Now, researchers are learning from this slow-moving ecological disaster to help other lakes in trouble, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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