Drought, climate change affect quality of well water

Study shows 15-25% of private groundwater wells used for drinking water in Colorado's San Luis Valley contain elevated levels of arsenic, uranium and other heavy metals.

#drought #water #WaterQuality #Colorado

https://www.alamosacitizen.com/drought-climate-change-affect-quality-of-well-water/

Shark attacks and wastewater management practices

"...The warnings for swimming water quality and shark safety were now effectively the same. If it’s poor water, if it looks dodgy, if it smells a bit off, don’t go in, because it’s not good. You could pick up a waterborne disease, but you could also become prey for a shark.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/24/could-sydneys-creaking-sewage-system-be-linked-to-the-spate-of-shark-attacks
#ocean #WaterQuality #swimming #beach #NSW #pollution #SewageSystem #infrastructure #offshore #sewage #runoff #waste #MarineAnimals #sharks #habitat

San Fernando Sun: CSUN Students’ Work Laying Groundwork for National Database on Water Quality Following SoCal’s Major Fires. “What they learn will go into a national database to help researchers better understand the impact the 2025 fires had on critical environmental characteristics, such as water turbidity. The database will serve as a baseline of information that can be used for future […]

"Sharks don't [hunt] people. Where they make mistakes is when they've been drawn into a food source, they're hungry, the visibility's poor and then people go in the mix.

Urbanisation, sedimentation, agriculture, all these things... our harbours used to be crystal clear, now they're muddy and gross.

These animals are trying to hunt in that poor visual environment."

#SharkMan Dr Riley Elliott, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/584563/they-re-hungry-shark-warning-to-kiwis-after-spate-of-australian-attacks

#conservation #sharks #WaterQuality #WaterPollution

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Algae Swirls Across a South African Reservoir

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/algae-swirls-across-a-south-african-reservoir/