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The steady push of salt water upstream in the drought-hit Mississippi River could have serious health and economic consequences across southern Louisiana, where many communities rely on the river ...
Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a sweltering summer and ongoing drought – setting a record for the second consecutive year ...
The Mississippi River is facing a crisis of saltwater making its way up the waterway from the Gulf of Mexico. Drinking water in some parts of Louisiana is facing a risk from the salt water ...
Many communities in south Louisiana rely on the Mississippi’s fresh water, having built their water intake treatment facilities right along the river. Salt water intrusion in Louisiana is not unique to this year. Last year in parts of Plaquemines Parish, the southeast corner of Louisiana that encompasses the final stretch of the Mississippi ...
Experts say the saltwater wedge is moving around 1 1/2 miles upriver every day, and it's creating unsafe levels of saline.
This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh. Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as ...
In 1988, the water level of the Mississippi fell to 10 feet (3.0 m) below zero on the Memphis gauge. The remains of wooden-hulled water craft were exposed in an area of 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) on the bottom of the Mississippi River at West Memphis, Arkansas. They dated to the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
New Orleans' water supply is no longer under a current threat of salt water intrusion as conditions improve along the Mississippi River, according to latest estimate by the U.S. Army Corps of ...