NEWS NOTES ON SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES Nutrient Reduction White House Promotes EPA Innovation Challenges to Reduce Nutrients in Waterways&nbs...

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NEWS NOTES ON SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES Nutrient Reduction White House Promotes EPA Innovation Challenges to Reduce Nutrients in Waterways  https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/03/improving-nutrient-management-and-reducing-pollution-through-open-innovation-prizes By Bruce Rodan, Assistant Director for Environmental Health for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, are essential for plant growth and for the production of food and livestock feed.  Too much nitrogen and phosphorus in our waterways, however, can cause algal blooms, eutrophication, and hypoxia in lakes, estuaries, and oceans—damaging ecosystems and threatening human health far from the original site of application or deposition.  Open innovation to reduce nutrients in waterways is among the Administration’s top 100 leadership examples in science, technology, and innovation.  Federal agencies—OSTP, EPA, NOAA, USDA, USGS, and NIST—have come together to take action to improve nutrient management and reduce pollution, including by forming the Challenging Nutrients Coalition with engagement from academia and the private sector. One way the Administration has taken action in this area is by calling for challenges and prizes that seek potentially transformative ideas to tackle intractable problems. This link will also be placed on the 2016 Actions and Activities Page of the Sustainable Water Resources Site at https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/">https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/   Tim Smith Sustainable Water Resources Coordinator Government Web Site, http://acwi.gov/ Sustainable Water Resources Site, https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/">https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/  

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  1. Thanks for giving the 3  and 4 letter names of the agencies causing all of these problems.  I hope you have some scientific background, Bruce.

    Here is the short version of the report sent to the CA. ST. director of water Mgmt.

    1. CA policies of no rain collection, and no more dam construction has caused this drought.

    2. Rivers and lakes have less water, no flow, become stagnant.

    3. All life, birds, fish, mammals live with in a ph. range.

     4. Less water concentrates the organic compounds.

     5. microbes, fish , and others life forms slowly die off as per their ph. tolerance range.

    6. These dead new organic compounds mix with the existing organic nutrient compounds.. 

    7. problem is most of these are bottom feeders. toxic metal compounds stay in their cell walls. When dead they are released.

    8. There are an estimated 8 million organic compounds in nature. Science has only recorded around 80,000. No one can tell which will become toxic or not.

     9. The algae thrive on the ph. change They will only metabolize the nutrients when they are in their elemental form.  

    10. Add a microbial species called Archaea.  It is an RNA microbe. It is the only microbe in the world that is non pathogen. In addition it is non mutational.  Approved by the USDA/NOP .

     11. special note: No life can metabolize nutrients unless they are in their elemental form. Bacteria and fungus do not this genetic code. Strictly reserved to the RNA realm.

     This will solve the clean up mess.  But in order to eliminate the causes CA must reverse their damaging policies.

     a).collect rain water,

     b). collect and make compost, grow as much of your own food as possible.

    c) clean out all rivers and lakes while they are low.

    d) review and start to build multiple dams/reservoirs.

    e) Remove all concrete from all canal floors.  Replace with various mineral rocks. The dirty/toxic runoff will slow down and will clean the runoff before it reaches the ocean. Eliminate coastal dead zones.

     f) Make and share your compost. all home, gov offices, downtown medians parks etc. Fresh compost everywhere. No chemical fertilizers, pesticides. Add Archaea with any health program

     G) All of these efforts will hold moisture, sequester CO2, hold nutrients longer.  More water will naturally evaporate at its own pace, more atmospheric moisture, yields clouds, rain, fills rivers, lakes, rain barrels, parched land.   3 years the drought is over.

    H) Nature has her own rules. I suggest you stop breaking them.