Take a leak…and fix it like a pro. Listen up for a simple how-to: Why settle for leaky faucets when sealing ’em up can be as easy as one, two, three? Karen Wirth of the EPA’s WaterSense program explains the problem—and the simple solution. “An American home can waste on average more than 11,000 gallons …

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We’re getting a bit salty in this episode… listen up! Salt helps keep winter roads safe. But when snow melts, the salt runs off pavement and can end up in waterways. John Jackson is with the Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania. In the lab, he’s studied the toxicity of salt on mayflies – a …

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David Strayer and his colleagues have tracked 25 years of data on the Hudson River. Transcript of the Audio Podcast: Taking the health history of the Hudson River… on this CurrentCast. Ecologist David Strayer and his colleagues at the Carey Institute of Ecosystem Studies have analyzed the Hudson River for decades. Looking at more than …

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Eroding Great Lakes shorelines… learn more: The Great Lakes coastal shorelines are eroding. “Sometimes it’s slow and you might not even be thinking about it, and other times it can be a very rapid and scary,” Michael Mohr of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He says ice, wind, and waves cause erosion…but storms can really …

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Move over, Brita, mother nature has its own water filter.  Explore the amazing mussel: Native mussels do some heavy lifting in a stream. “They feed on algae and plankton, and they help to purify that aquatic water system,” says Tamara Smith. That’s Tamara Smith of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She says mussels have …

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