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Pollution Worse in Idaho Aquifer; US Dam in Mexico Defeated by Protests
Friday, January 30, 2015 13:05
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Pollution Increasing In Idaho’s Snake River Aquifer. The U.S. Geological Survey this week released several reports on important aquifers around the country. Idaho’s Snake River Plain Basin features in two of those reports. About a fifth of Idahoans rely on that aquifer as their only source of drinking water.
US-backed Mexico dam project triggered protest, rare defeat. People in the hamlet of Santa Ursula began to worry when the logging started. Next came dynamite explosions. Finally murky gray water began flowing from the taps, leading locals to fear the worst: contamination in the gurgling mountain spring that provides their drinking water.
