Weather & Science
Water Plants Turn Salty Due to Low Mississippi: Weather Watch
The impacts of drought are on Bloomberg Green’s radar today.
The Mississippi River is encountering another year of drought.
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The drought that has led to low levels along the Mississippi River is now threatening the quality of drinking water.
The river’s water levels have fallen to a point that it can’t flow with sufficient force to push back salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, the Army Corps of Engineers has been called into resupply water treatment plants in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, which has been overwhelmed by an influx of salt water.