This Week's #MOwater News

This Week's Highlights: Counties ask Missouri Supreme Court to strike down law, agrochemical contamination in Nebraska, new maps show U.S. flood damage rising and Parson seeks new office for Missouri flood response, African governments urged to back a global treaty on plastic pollution, bringing back the upper Animas, how to destroy PFAs, water rights for tribal nations, a free youth fishing event, and the history of the naming of the Meramec River - plus upcoming cleanup on the Meramec

MISSOURI
Counties ask Missouri Supreme Court to Strike Down Law
Counties ask Missouri Supreme Court to strike down law restricting local CAFO rules
Missouri Independent

Parson Seeks New Office For Flood Response
Parson seeks new office to improve Missouri’s response to floods and drought
Daily Journal Online

Who Named the Meramec River?
Who Named the Meramec River?
Arnold History News

MDC offers free youth trout fishing event Feb. 19 in Warsaw
MDC offers free youth trout fishing event Feb. 19 in Warsaw
MDC News Online

Attendance soars at area state parks in Franklin County
Attendance soars at area state parks in Franklin County
eMissourian

MDC Wants Your Help with Project Feeder Watch
MDC wants your help with Project Feeder Watch event Feb. 8-9 in Joplin
MDC News Online

NATIONAL
Bringing Back the Upper Animas
Bringing back the upper Animas
Trout Unlimited

How to Destroy ‘Forever Chemicals’
Health-damaging PFASs are nearly impossible to break down—but a new hot-water technique can destroy them
Scientific American

Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?
Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?
Circle of Blue

New Maps Show US Flood Damage Rising
New Maps Show US Flood Damage Rising 26 Percent in Next 30 Years. 
Future floods will disproportionately affect Black Communities.
Scientific American

Tribal Nations are locked inside the U.S. Water Regime
Tribal Nations are locked inside the U.S. Water Regime
High Country News
 
WORLD
African governments urged to back global treaty on plastic pollution
African governments urged to back global treaty on plastic pollution
Biz Community