Water skiing on the Mississippi River
It takes more than 200 pages of dense, legalistic language to detail the intricacies of the federal Clean Water Act. But the bottom line is simple: Federal and state governments must protect lakes, streams and…
The scenic brown waters of the River Des Peres in 2003. Raw sewage flows into it in dozens of places. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reckons that clean water is affordable if it costs 2 percent or less…
Proposition Y on the Aug. 5 primary ballot asks city and county voters how they’d like to pay for $275 million worth of repairs and upgrades to their sewers: With cash up front or by spreading the payments out over 20…
