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  1. Ohio State PLOTS is here! Download it today!

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-31/ohio-state-plots-here-download-it-today

    and other water quality issues.  The initiative began after the numerous algal blooms that occurred in ... Lake Erie, causing hundreds of thousands of residents to be without safe drinking water.  Field to ... Faucet aims to keep farmers productive and profitable, while helping to ensure clean drinking water ...

  2. 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. ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Environmental Professionals Network Breakfast Presentation- September 12

    https://ocvn.osu.edu/events/environmental-professionals-network-breakfast-presentation-september-12

    Farmer Solutions Since the Toledo Harmful Algal Bloom-induced drinking water shutdown, researchers, ... September 12 Agriculture and Water Quality Issues-- OSU Research and Agency Initiatives Guide ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Webinar: The Economics of Water Pollution Control: The Case of Harmful Algal Blooms

    https://aede.osu.edu/about-us/events/webinar-economics-water-pollution-control-case-harmful-algal-blooms

    Basin. An overview of economic instruments to control algal blooms, such as taxes, water quality trading, ... algal blooms. In particular, the webinar will provide the following: A discussion of the economic ... dangers of harmful algal blooms. An evaluation of traditional conservation practices in the Maumee River ...

  7. Drinking Water Regulations

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-423

    this, the United States Congress first passed the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974. The act charged the ... ultimately responsible for providing safe water and complying with the regulations. Drinking Water Standards ... The Safe Drinking Water Act sets requirements for treatment, monitoring and reporting by public water ...

  8. Researchers: Toledo Water Crisis Impacted Perceptions of Lake Erie Algae Causes

    https://aede.osu.edu/news/researchers-toledo-water-crisis-impacted-perceptions-lake-erie-algae-causes

    water from the Toledo municipal water supply due to the presence of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, ... growth of harmful algal blooms. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through ... the source of the city’s water. The blooms resulted in the city water containing more than double the ...

  9. NOAA Lake Erie Algal Bloom Projection

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-14/noaa-lake-erie-algal-bloom-projection

    predict the severity of harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie. The first projection is as follows: The ... severity of the western Lake Erie cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (HAB) is dependent on ... University’s National Center for Water Quality Research and the western Lake Erie bloom severity models by ...

  10. Webinars

    https://aede.osu.edu/programs/environmental-policy-initiative-0/webinars

    Webinars 9/30/14: The Economics of Water Pollution Control: The Case of Harmful Algal Blooms ... the economics of water pollution control through the lens of harmful algal blooms. In particular, the ... instruments to control algal blooms, such as taxes, water quality trading, and phosphorus limits. Associated ...

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