Lakes drying up as the scorching summer heat intensifies. But now, they are building bunds around the lake for people to walk, and this means almost a uniform increase in depth.” This design, dubbed as ‘soup bowl’ to help increase water capacity and suit fisheries, is inevitably hostile to migratory birds that usually flock to shallow areas within a lake. …
CHICAGO — Rowers, kayakers and other users of the Chicago River are getting a real-time look at one measure of water quality in the system that weaves through downtown and several neighborhoods. Chicago nonprofit Current in 2019 installed three sensors in the river’s three main branches to continuously estimate the amount of bacteria from human and other warm-blooded animals’ waste. …
