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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

This lecture is the most technical of the three and is about topics I practiced every day. My objective is to make you more informed and skeptical about what deserves it. 140 Billion gallons per day to power plants (plus 60 Billion saline). 32 Billion gallons per day treated at 16,000 sewage treatment plants.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

Read the first story here. Livestock producers, he says, have soil testing and more sensitive manure spreading equipment that, if they really paid attention, would enable them to apply liquid manure much more carefully. The investments farmers make in equipment and nutrient application are baked into crop and livestock systems.