This Week in Water for April 8, 2018

Pruitt Grabs Control of Water Regulation as Ethics Allegations Swirl. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. EPA administrator Pruitt mandated that authority previously delegated to regional offices is now retained by him. There are almost as many hogs as people in North Carolina, and what to do about all the swine waste just went on trial. From the end of October until the middle of March no rain or snow fell in this world capitol—the longest drought on record. The third longest river in the Lower 48 has already dried up in places, which is unusual so early in the year. There's been a lot of focus on plastic pollution in the earth’s oceans, but those plastics are also prevalent on land and in freshwater. Urine trouble: Stopping peeing in the pond.