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New Orleans is facing a drinking water crisis amid a saltwater intrusion on the quickly shrinking Mississippi River. Local water resources in south Louisiana are being strained as saltwater from ...
This is one of the major concerns for New Orleans, which has around 50,000 lead pipes in its drinking water infrastructure, said Robert Miller, a coastal hydrologist and professor at the ...
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While Northern Africa has 92% safe water coverage, Sub-Saharan Africa remains at a low 60% of coverage – leaving 40% of the 783 million people in that region without access to clean drinking water. [2] Some of these differences in clean water availability can be attributed to Africa's extreme climates.
The saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans drinking water has been delayed by several weeks in its upstream trek on the Mississippi River thanks to better-than-forecast river flows last month ...
Close to the Quarter is the Tremé community, which contains the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park and the New Orleans African American Museum—a site which is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The Natchez is an authentic steamboat with a calliope that cruises the length of the city twice daily.
Extreme drought and sea level rise are colliding in Louisiana, and experts say it will only become a bigger problem in a future made hotter and drier by planet-warming pollution.