Great article about #BigAg...

https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/seeing-red

"Water from the #RedRiver flows through #LakeWinnipeg on its journey to #HudsonBay. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."

"The #water_quality in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased #livestock production and use of synthetic #fertilizer in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven #toxic #algae blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."

#Agriculture #Money #Politics #Pollution #Regulations #BigAgriculture #USA #Canada

Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic.

#denitrification #bacteria #biofilters #water_quality #HAB

https://eos.org/articles/reactive-barriers-could-keep-nitrate-out-of-the-atlantic