By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens The Mississippi River is the nation’s most ...

The Mississippi River Basin represents North America’s largest drainage system, encompassing all or parts ... which is being depleted at rates far exceeding natural recharge. USGS data indicates that ...

Baton Rouge city-parish officials plan to ask the Metro Council to restore funding for river gauges that ... for the Southwest Data Program in USGS's Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District reports that its dam projects in the Cumberland River Basin are operating ... the flows from 75% of the drainage area above Nashville to zero ...

The center produces key research about ecological trends on the upper Mississippi River basin and elsewhere in the Midwest and the world. Two former scientists who were fired said the terminations ...

Levees built to protect greater New Orleans had cut off the Maurepas Swamp from the fresh water supplied by the Mississippi River and the Pontchartrain Basin, starving the swamp of nutrients ...

USGS also published the map below ... "Water from parts or all of 31 states drains into the Mississippi River, and creates a drainage basin over 1,245,000 square miles in size.

She was joined by Mitch Reynolds, mayor of La Crosse, WI; Stacy Kinder, mayor of Cape Girardeau, Mo; Anna Wolverton, meteorologist with the Mississippi Valley Division of the ...

Other agricultural practices – more tile drainage, more livestock and ... told Congress last fall that nitrogen loads in the Mississippi River basin decreased 23% from the baseline period ...

The USGS, Army Corps of Engineers ... According to the 2023 Upper Mississippi River Basin Association report, total suspended solids have decreased significantly in the northern portions of ...