$10 Million Offered to Rid US Waterways of Phosphate Pollution
$10 Million Offered to Rid US Waterways of Phosphate Pollution – A Florida environmental group is offering $10 million to anyone in the world who can figure out how to clean-up the Everglades and other waterways around the country of a fertilizer byproduct. That byproduct is phosphorous and it’s blamed for disastrous algae blooms in Florida and the Midwest.
The Miami-based Everglades Foundation said it will disburse a total of $1 million for other advances over the next seven years leading up to the awarding of the $10 million prize in 2022. And in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is hosting a water quality meeting this week with mayors from surrounding cities, seeking to combat future algae blooms in the Great Lakes.
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