Government urged to clean Mississippi River

[jpak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPAR74520420071017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Mississippi River needs more federal government action if it is once again to be clean enough for fishing and swimming, scientists said on Tuesday.

In a report issued by the National Research Council, the scientists called on the Environmental Protection Agency to take a more aggressive role in enforcing the Clean Water Act, which aims to make U.S. waters "fishable and swimmable."

Parts of the Mississippi, which flows 2,300 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, are neither.

"The limited attention being given to monitoring and managing the Mississippi's water quality does not match the river's significant economic, ecological and cultural importance," said David Dzombak of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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[kestrel91316]

1. In addition to cleaning it up we might give some consideration to

the idea of not messing it up again in the first place.

Don't plow and plant to the very edge of your land, farmers!!!! Leave a 6-10 ft strip of native vegetation (especially grasses) at the perimeter to catch all the polluted runoff so it can trickle through the ground and get cleaned up before it winds up in the watershed.

And quit with the damned OVERfertilizing.

[tom_paine]

2. Neither Nazis nor Bushies listen to the weak-kneed gobblings of odious scientists

If those scientists were REAL MEN worth listening to, they would be generals or mercenary CEOs busy lootin' a nation from inside it's marbed halls! Now THAT takes some big brass cojones!

No self-respecting Bushie would EVER listen to some poindexter scientist, unless that poindexter was helping them to kill more people more efficiently. Then they'd be barely tolerated.

<finished channeling the Dark Heart of Cheney>

So you can guess where this plea is going...straight ot the shredder.