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The saltwater is threatening drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built an underwater levee to stop the intrusion.

The Houma Plant already was drawing water from Bayou Black for months because the Intracoastal had salt levels that were too high, but Nov. 10, Bayou Black's salt water content rose above safe levels.

If the saltwater reaches plants in New Orleans, freshwater barged in could be added to the water supply to reduce its salt content, Jones said.

Saltwater toilets, desperate wildlife: Water-starved Catalina Island battles against drought. Raymond Valdez, 8, ... due largely to a desalination plant that opened in Avalon in 2016.

Mississippi River water at the intake to the Jefferson Parish Water Treatment Plant in Jefferson on Friday, October 6, 2023. Jefferson Parish is considering building a permanent pipeline upriver ...

Sea creatures pollinate marine plants and algae, surprising scientists. Once thought to be a land-only phenomenon, pollination may have existed in the ocean millions of years before terrestrial ...

All of the plants on Molly Hendry’s wish list for the Colonial Lake park makeover had to be vetted — preferably before she became emotionally attached. If a plant wasn’t salt-tolerant, it ...

The same 2023 study estimated that farmers’ saltwater-related economic losses topped $100 million in the region in 2016-2017 alone. “Change is coming, and we have to deal with this,” said ...