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Impact on Water: Recently, concerns over ethanol's impact on water has arisen. While ethanol plants continue to improve efficiency where water is concerned, the major consumption comes from the increased amount of corn demand to keep up with ethanol demand. With increased corn production, pesticide and fertilizer use increase, potentially threatening ground water, rivers and streams. (9:43)
Water Regulation and Management: This segment examines Nebraska water policies created to strike a balance between increased agricultural demand, litigation with other states, and a federal mandate to protect river habitat for endangered species. (9:56)
How the Earth Works, and Why Ethanol Doesn't: U.C. Berkeley's Tad Patzek provide a lay person's description of the laws of thermodynamics, and explains how industrial agriculture and biofuel production run counter to those laws. (3:16) |
USGS High Plains Aquifer Study: Virginia McGuire, hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, conducts an ongoing study to monitor the High Plains, or Ogallala Aquifer. The USGS has released a public website to allow citizens to access current and historical levels in thousands of points throughout the largest underground aquifer in the United States. (5:29) |
Water Issuesproduced by Penny Costello
Penny Costello is working on degrees in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Great Plains Studies. She works at NET in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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