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  1. Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/january-february-2016/field-faucet-making-strides-improving-ohio

    initiative includes research, training and education, all designed to ensure safe drinking water while ... agricultural lands and municipal sources and to maintain safe drinking water for cities like Toledo.” Video: ... put $1 million in college funding toward the effort after harmful algal blooms caused dangerous ...

  2. Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Conference

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/understanding-algal-blooms-state-science-conference

    prevent and predict harmful algal blooms and how to remove their toxins from drinking water. Hosted by ... drinking water for two days in August 2014 due to high microcystin levels. Presenters will focus on how to ... Fourteen leaders in the fight against harmful algal blooms will convene in Toledo on Sept. 15 to ...

  3. Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2015/martin-lead-field-faucet-water-program-has-

    quality program. A response to last summer’s Toledo water crisis and the ongoing harmful algal bloom ... problems in Lake Erie and other lakes, the new program aims to ensure safe drinking water for all Ohioans ... many minds. Jay has the ability to bring people together.”—Bruce McPheron Safe water, productive ...

  4. Seeing (and using) the good in manure and keeping our water clean, too

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2015/seeing-and-using-good-manure-and-keeping

    algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. The issue made headlines in summer 2014 when ... toxins from a western Lake Erie algal bloom caused a two-day water use ban in Toledo. Experts think such ... Called Field to Faucet, it aims to ensure safe water for all Ohioans while keeping the state’s farms ...

  5. ‘Toledo was a wakeup call’: Dean announces new water quality initiative

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/%E2%80%98toledo-was-wakeup-call%E2%80%99-dean-announces

    of Toledo awoke to the news that parents could not draw water from their taps for their children. ... and to ensure clean drinking water across Ohio. Video: CFAES Communications. “Ohio State University, ... systems In early August, toxins produced by a harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie caused a two-day ...

  6. Algal Blooms 101

    https://aede.osu.edu/news/algal-blooms-101

    The harmful algal blooms that manifest on Lake Erie in the summer can be as murky a concept to ... blooms can have beyond the Great Lakes’ banks: Harmful algal blooms are capable of producing toxins that ... commonly known as blooms, resulted in  a three-day shutdown of the city of Toledo’s water supply  in 2014. ...

  7. Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement Conference

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/important-issues-water-quality-and-nutrient-placement-conference

    a hot topic because seldom does a day go by without a news article on water issues such as algal blooms ... How to improve water quality across the region will be discussed by Ohio State University ... incorporating or broadcasting them and how to reduce erosion of streambanks,” Reeder said. “Water quality is ...

  8. New Ohio Sea Grant Project Helps Determine Lake Erie's Value to Its Residents

    https://aede.osu.edu/news/new-ohio-sea-grant-project-helps-determine-lake-eries-value-its-residents

    clarity, safe and clean drinking water, and recreational activities like fishing and beachgoing. These ... blooms at your favorite fishing spot?” “The drinking water treatment cost will be based on an engineering ... nature provides to humans,” according to Irwin – when negative events like harmful algal blooms are ...

  9. Algal blooms cost Ohio homeowners $152 million

    https://aede.osu.edu/news/algal-blooms-cost-ohio-homeowners-152-million

    algae at the beginning, when they first see news stories about the water being unsafe to drink,” Klaiber ... takeaway is that efforts to prevent and mitigate algal blooms have real, tangible benefits for Ohioans, ... happen if a severe algal bloom—similar in extent to  the one experienced in 2011 which covered 45 percent ...

  10. Do algae affect what fish see? Science angles for answers

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2016/do-algae-affect-what-fish-see-science

    how that ability is influenced by changes in water clarity. They hope the research will help Lake ... Erie’s fisheries, especially its sport fishery, adapt to algal blooms that reduce underwater visibility, ... some way by changes to the visual environment that happen with the algal blooms in the late summer and ...

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