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Wisconsin Examiner American Rivers ranks the Raccoon River as the ninth-most-endangered in the country. (Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Des Moines Water Works will face a “catastrophe” unless Iowa finds a way to reduce farm pollution in the Raccoon River, which last week was named as one of the nation’s most endangered, the utility’s CEO said. “It is clear, given the ammonia, phosphorus, and thousands of pounds of nitrogen that flow past our treatment plant, that adding any more nutrients to our watershed without addressing the water quality issues is...

This Massachusetts river is among the top 10 most endangered in the country, called ‘poster child’ for outdated water system Updated 5:54 AM; Today 5:54 AM In Ipswich, outdated laws are keeping much of the watershed from being subject to regulation, officials said. Around 80% of the roughly 30 million gallons of water that is withdrawn from the river every day for human use is exported and "gone forever," according to Wayne Castonguay, executive director of the Ipswich River Watershed Association. (Courtesy Steve Fantone/Ipswich River Watershed Association) Facebook Share Last summer, a...

The people most impacted are also leading efforts to save their rivers and lands. April 13, 2021 The threats facing America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2021 aren’t just threats to rivers and the environment. They are threats to people – to human health, safety and survival.  On Georgia’s South River (#4), predominantly Black neighborhoods are disproportionately impacted by sewage pollution. On New Mexico’s Pecos River (#5), Indigenous and Latino communities would be some of the hardest hit by pollution from a proposed mine. And on Mississippi’s Turkey Creek (#10), f...

Snake River in U.S. Pacific Northwest named most endangered by environmental group

The mouth of the Ipswich River. (Courtesy Ipswich River Watershed Association) The Ipswich River winds along 45 miles of northeastern Massachusetts, through hardwood forests and marshy floodplains, from the town of Burlington to Plum Island Sound. It's known as one of the best rivers in New England for trout fishing, and it also supplies drinking water to more than 350,000 people. But stretches of the river have run bone dry in recent years, killing fish, damaging ecosystems and threatening the drinking water supply of more than a dozen communities. A new report from the national advocacy gro...