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  1. Lead in Drinking Water: Ohio Leads the Way. What More Is Needed?

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/lead-drinking-water-ohio-leads-way-what-more-needed

    The safety of Ohio’s drinking water will be in the spotlight during the  December breakfast ... Protection Agency’s Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, will present “Lead in Drinking Water: Ohio Leads ... management and protection in the American West, nutrient runoff and harmful algal blooms, transforming yards, ...

  2. Western Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/western-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day

    quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the  College of Food, ... algal blooms, for instance, are partly caused by the runoff of phosphorus. In recent years, such blooms ... University Extension. Successfully doing that, he said, can lower input costs, raise profits and limit water ...

  3. Northwest Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/northwest-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day

    quality threats such as harmful algal blooms. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the  College of Food, ... algal blooms, for instance, are partly caused by the runoff of phosphorus. In recent years, such blooms ... University Extension. Successfully doing that, he said, can lower input costs, raise profits and limit water ...

  4. Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/good-news-ohio%E2%80%99s-soil-phosphorus-levels-trending-down

    (go.osu.edu/Bawz). Phosphorus runoff from farm fields is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing ... which came through the college’s Field to Faucet initiative, represent good news for Ohioans concerned ... about protecting surface water quality while maintaining agricultural production, said CFAES scientists ...

  5. Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/study-spreading-gypsum-farms-can-help-keep

    of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. Gypsum, when spread on a farm field, ... not just as a booster of crops but also a protector of water. OARDC scientist Warren Dick is two years ... average 55-percent reduction in soluble phosphorus runoff, based on tests of water samples collected from ...

  6. What does your family emergency plan look like?

    https://butler.osu.edu/news/what-does-your-family-emergency-plan-look

    kit.  Following a disaster, clean drinking water may not be available.  Your regular water source could ... account: One gallon of water per person, per day, for drinking and sanitation. Children, nursing mothers ... double. Keep at least a three day supply of water per person. It is recommended you purchase commercially ...

  7. Welcome Summer Festivities with Geraniums

    https://butler.osu.edu/news/welcome-summer-festivities-geraniums

    every 2-4 weeks with an all-purpose fertilizer will keep them blooming and vigorous. Water them whenever ... the plant producing blooms instead of setting seeds. In our Midwest climate, these plants keep ... spring and blooms profusely in early summer. Known commonly as cranesbill, it does best when planted ...

  8. EPN Breakfast Club

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/epn-breakfast-club

    reduce or prevent algal blooms and low-oxygen “dead zones.” Both the Ohio River and Lake Erie suffered ... record-setting algal blooms last summer. Speaking at the event will be: Jessica Fox, senior program manager for ... and Others in the Ohio River Basin Establish the World’s Largest Water Quality Trading Program” is ...

  9. Steady Goes It on the Ice and Snow

    https://butler.osu.edu/news/steady-goes-it-ice-and-snow

    ·       Drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration, which can affect your balance as well as how your ... The Ohio Department of Aging gives tips on how to "Win Winter."  These tips include such ... things as dressing defensively, walking wisely, pack with power, keeping connected and honing healthy ...

  10. Teaming up with farmers to protect Ohio’s water

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2014/teaming-farmers-protect-ohio%E2%80%99s-water

    a major contributor to harmful algal blooms, experts say. “This project would not be possible without the ... improve the state’s water quality. Now in its second year, the On-Field Ohio project aims to make the ... Resources. Phosphorus is an agricultural pollutant often implicated in reduced water quality in Ohio. It is ...

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