Water keeps agriculture and businesses of all kinds afloat. Some water makes us happy, while some water hurts us.
KOSU Waterline is a project that looks into how water impacts peoples' lives. Tell us how you interact with water and if you've ever had any issues.
KOSU's Graycen Wheeler will field and answer your questions!
KOSU Waterline is a project that looks into how water impacts peoples' lives. Tell us how you interact with water and if you've ever had any issues.
KOSU's Graycen Wheeler will field and answer your questions!
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. -
Gov. Kevin Stitt wants to spur negotiations in Oklahoma’s decades-old poultry lawsuit. The parties have been at an impasse since a federal judge ruled on the case more than two years ago. -
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is using emergency funds to help remediate the site at Five Mile Creek. A trench and pit were dug to collect the fluid and divert it away from water bodies. -
This Week in Oklahoma Politics' panel discusses the official resignation of Ryan Walters as state superintendent, a crackdown on illegal immigration by the Highway Patrol on I-40 in western Oklahoma and more. -
Data from the American Dental Association estimates a nearly $507 million price tag over five years in dental care costs for Oklahomans if fluoride were removed from community water systems. -
Piedmont’s water infrastructure hasn’t been able to keep up with its explosive population growth. But the Oklahoma Water Resources Board just gave final approval to a $2 million grant for the city to update its pipes. -
Across Oklahoma, officials are courting data centers as sources of new revenue and jobs. But local authorities also keep information private on which companies will run the centers and how much water and electricity they will use. -
Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening public water systems, making water temporarily unusable, and forcing some cities and towns to take costly preventive measures. -
Guymon's Mesa Water Project is expected to deliver its first drops to the city in October of next year. -
Oklahoma is still tussling with several Arkansas-based poultry companies about how to deal with pollution in the Illinois River Watershed.
