"States Join E.P.A. Study of Pathogens in Ohio River"
By BOB DRIEHAUS
Published: January 20, 2009
Summary: "Six states bordering the Ohio River are joining the Environmental Protection Agency in the largest study of its kind to identify and reduce dangerous levels of bacteria that plague the waterway."
About half of the ohio river is currently filled with pathogyns which can sicken swimmers and others that come into contact with the water. This is also very dangerous because many people get their supply of drinking water from this source. Thankfully research will be done to determine how much bacteria sewage treatment plant and factories and farms can safely discharge into the river. This will affect people in a beneficiary way because it will ensure that their water will be cleaner. I am not sure if it directly affects my family...I don't think our water comes into direct contact with the Ohio but I'm not educated on that information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21ohio.html?_r=1
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