Tag: water quality

Water quality continues to be a focus, for farmers and everyone else.

The Columbiana Soil and Water Conservation District has received a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners Program to support landowners in protecting water quality

Property owners will see their assessments paid to the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District cut in half beginning next year.

Every farm owner, every homeowner, every consumer, plays a role in water conservation and protection.

A little phosphorus makes Lake Erie the "Walleye Capital of the World," but too much phosphorus can lead to harmful algal blooms.

Penn State study suggests dairy herd water quality linked to milk production.

"I believe if we don't adopt this type of approach as an industry, we risk mandated controls. And I think history has proven that's seldom very successful" — John Oster, Morral Companies

Ohio EPA, ODNR and the ag department are nearing the completion of recommendations for controlling agriculture's share of water quality issues.

COLUMBUS -- The annual Ohio No-Till Conference will be held Dec. 6 in Plain City.

PITTSBURGH -- The Colcom Foundation's grant program Marcellus Environmental Fund has secured $150,000 for the Headwaters Quality Drinking Water Project to provide low income families in Jefferson, Elk, Potter, Cameron, Clinton, Centre and McKean counties with funding to secure chain of custody water sample analyses of their private water supplies prior to Marcellus Shale gas well drilling activities.