Water Quality
Arkansas Water Currents
The Arkansas Water Resources Center publishes this e-news each month to highlight research, faculty, news and important events.
West Fork White River Removed from Impaired Waterbodies List
The West Fork of the White River (WFWR), a tributary of Beaver Lake, the drinking water source for 1 in 6 Arkansans, has recently been removed from Arkansas’s impaired waterbodies list. The AWRC contributed to this watershed success story by carrying out multiple...
Ph.D. Student Mahmood Jebur Seeking Solution to Treating Water from Hydraulic Fracturing
University of Arkansas Department of Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student Mahmood Jebur is conducting research that explores methods for treating the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing. Jebur’s project is titled “Integrated Electrocoagulation – Membrane...
Environmental Groups Challenge Navigable Waters Protection Rule
Multiple environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Conservation Law Foundation, and Defenders of Wildlife, have sued the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Army Corps of Engineers over the agencies’ new definition of waters of...
AWRC Water Quality Lab Still Accepting Samples
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking necessary precautions and will continue to accept water samples for analysis. We offer an essential service by continuing to analyze water samples for stakeholders. “There are many agencies, researchers, producers, and...
Cooperative Extension Service Busy with Outreach and Educational Programs, Incentives to Participate
By Jane Maginot, CES The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service is currently providing two water quality educational programs with incentives to participate. Best Management Practice Button Program In the first program you...
The Navigable Waters Rule and Subsurface Flows
From EHS Daily Advisor, William C. Schillaci According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Navigable Waters Rule (NWR), issued by the Corps and the EPA, will effectively remove 51% of the Corps’s mapped wetlands from federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act...
Jodie Murray Burns Explains “Waters of the United States” at Multi-Basin Meeting
The Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1977 is the landmark legislation designed to protect water quality in the United States. More precisely, the CWA sets out to protect “Waters of the United States” (otherwise known as WOTUS), but what are “Waters of the U.S.”? The...
Join the Board of the Lake Fayetteville Watershed Partnership
There are board positions open with the Lake Fayetteville Watershed Partnership (LFWP) in Northwest Arkansas. Anyone can join the board, including students, professionals, or anyone else who wants to promote watershed stewardship. The purpose of the LFWP is to...
Biofilms in Water Distribution Systems Could Accumulate Harmful Amount of Lead
In 2014, issues with lead in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water resulted in concerns over lead contamination in drinking water in communities throughout the country. Even in very low doses, lead is detrimental to human health, especially in developing children. So the...
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