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World - River deltas are threatened by more than climate change – leaving hundreds of millions of people at risk

Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the last ice age, offering flat, fertile lands with abundant freshwater which are ideal for agriculture.

Southeast
Waterways

USA - Georgia, Alabama agree to resolve Chattahoochee River water litigation

(The Center Square) — The governors of Georgia and Alabama have agreed with the United States Army Corps of Engineers that could end a years-long legal fight over water.

International
Waterways

World - Shipping Industry Tycoons Call For Quick Actions To Decarbonise Marine Transportation

In a joint statement released at COP 28, the CEOs of the largest international shipping companies urged the International Marine Organization (IMO) to quicken the decarbonisation of the marine transportation industry.

Coastwide
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USA - STORMWATER MANAGERS ADJUST TO FIFTH ‘WOTUS’ REDEFINITION SINCE 2015

On Sept. 8, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) changed the regulatory definition of the term “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). This is the fifth time that this definition – which determines the scope of the Clean Water Act – has been amended within 8 years.

International
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World - Nestlé cuts ocean transport emissions with Maersk's ECO Delivery solution by over 80%

Copenhagen/Vevey - Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, is cutting its ocean logistics greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by using Maersk’s ECO Delivery solution for 100% of its ocean containers shipped by Maersk in 2023, with an option to extend this agreement into 2024 and beyond.

Hawaii & Alaska
Waterways

AK - $131 Million More in Infrastructure Funds to Support Rural Ferry ...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, last week announced the Federal Transit Administration is awarding $131 million more in bipartisan infrastructure investments to support the Alaska Marine Highway System’s operations and recapitalize portions of the fleet.

Southeast
Waterways

FL - Green Macroalga Has Replaced Seagrass in the Indian River Lagoon

The Indian River Lagoon was considered one of the last “unpolluted coastal lagoons” in Florida in the 1970s. Fast forward to today and most of the 156-mile lagoon is now considered impaired because of external sources of nutrients including human waste, fertilizers, stormwater runoff, agriculture, rainfall and sub-marine groundwater discharge.

Gulf of Mexico
Waterways

USA - The Mississippi River is central to America's story. Why doesn't it get more love?

The Mississippi is one of the world's great rivers — but it seems to carry less reverence than other iconic water bodies across the country. River advocates are finding their own ways to help people connect.

Pacific Northwest
Waterways

OR - Invasive mussels inching closer to the Columbia Basin, federal report says more could be done to stop them

Fast-spreading invasive aquatic mussels are hitching rides on boats, kayaks and jet skis. So, people are working to keep them out of the Columbia River Basin, the only major river basin in the U.S. without an established quagga mussel population.

Gulf of Mexico
Waterways

FL - Sarasota Bay's water quality improving but climate issues and manmade threats persist

Sarasota Bay’s water quality has begun improving, though threats remain from warming sea temperatures, stormwater runoff, and the potential wide-ranging environmental impact of more than 200 million gallons of polluted waste released from the Piney Point phosphate plant in 2021, experts say.

International
Waterways

Switzerland - Study predicts to what extinct invasive quagga mussel will spread in affected lakes

The invasive quagga mussel has already gained a foothold in numerous bodies of water in Switzerland. For three affected Swiss lakes, a prediction of the extent to which the quagga mussel will continue to spread has now been made for the first time as part of the SeeWandel project, as a collaboration between researchers from the aquatic research institute Eawag, the universities of Geneva and Constance and others.

Great Lakes
Waterways

GL - Launch of “All Too Clear” : A Documentary that gets beneath the surface of the Great Lakes

TOBERMORY — Over the past 20 years quadrillions of invasive mussels have been sucking the life out of the Great Lakes. They’re trapping nutrients, the basic building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds - from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish - are vanishing. In Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, vast offshore areas have become “biological deserts,” heralding one of the biggest changes to the Earth’s freshwaters in 10,000 years.

Pacific Northwest
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ID - After $3M effort, Idaho officials hope they killed off invasive quagga mussels in Snake River

TWIN FALLS (Idaho Capital Sun) — Idaho state officials are hopeful that the approximately $3 million effort to kill invasive quagga mussels detected in the Snake River in September was successful. But they don’t expect to know if they wiped out all of the mussels until waters warm up and water sampling surveys resume next spring.

International
Waterways

Canada - Invasive mussels could cost BC economy $129M annually if they take hold in province

Vernon is being asked to throw its support behind a call to action over invasive mussels. The Okanagan Basin Water Board is seeking the city's support in calling on senior governments for immediate action to prevent the introduction of invasive zebra and quagga mussels into B.C. waters.

International
Waterways

Mediterranean - All aquatic species in river mouths are contaminated by microplastics

All aquatic species in the river mouths flowing into the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean are contaminated with microplastics, with molluscs being the most affected due to their ability to filter water.

West Coast
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CA - Coastal Commission to ask Biden to declare border sewage crisis an emergency

The binational agency that operates the aging federal wastewater treatment plant at the U.S.-Mexico border said declaring the sewage crisis an emergency to expedite the facility's expansion may no longer be effective.

Gulf of Mexico
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FL - Counties set aside millions to protect Sarasota Bay

Sarasota and Manatee counties aim to spend as rising water temperatures and the legacy of Piney Point threaten positive momentum.

Northeast
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NY - Environmental report shows rising PCB levels in upper Hudson River

The groups say PCB levels in the river show dredging was not as effective as the federal government predicted

Mid-Atlantic
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NC - More dredging needed for Topsail inlets, price could increase by

TOPSAIL BEACH — A coastal Pender County town may have to pay more for this year’s dredging after survey work revealed many areas in the channel have more shallow depths than anticipated.

West Coast
Waterways

CA - First of Four Klamath Dams Has Been Removed

And then there were three. The nonprofit Klamath River Renewal Corporation recently announced that work to remove the first of four hydroelectric dams clogging the lower Klamath River is complete, bringing the largest dam removal project in the nation’s history one step closer to fruition.

Mid-Atlantic
Waterways

VA - State Of The James River Reports Slowing Progress, Zero American Shad

The James River Association (JRA) released their biennial State of the James report grading one of the Chesapeake Bay’s three largest rivers at a B. The 66% score is much improved from its failing health decades ago—Scientists estimate the James’s health in the 1970s would have been a D-minus.

Coastwide
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USA - East Coast vs. West Coast: More imports shift back to Pacific ports

Asia-West Coast spot container rates outperforming Asia-East Coast rates