New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

The Amite River Basin Commission is proposing to preserve this 4,265-acre region of lowland swamp in South Baton Rouge for ...

More: Extreme rainfall and historic floods are transforming life in the vast Mississippi River basin. The challenge: How do we respond? FEMA assists communities during floods and other types of ...

The panel, led by Mississippi River Basin Panel administrator Elizabeth ... we need to dredge it, so the water flows faster out of it and doesn’t overflow into our neighboring states.” ...

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens The Mississippi River is the nation’s most ...

The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency most tied to the long-running Comite River Diversion Canal, ...

According to the National Wildlife Federation, nearly 20 million people rely on the Mississippi River Basin for daily drinking water. The river also helps support a billion-dollar industry that ...

The Water Resources Development Act was signed ... Kirsten Wallace, executive director of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, called this year’s WRDA “a pretty special one.” ...

This is typically when water moves faster and can cause harm to people. The Mississippi River basin encompasses parts of all of 31 states and two Canadian provinces. The river basin is over ...

Similar compacts are in place in other large American water systems, like the Great Lakes and the Colorado River Basin, but the Mississippi River does not have a compact. Recent efforts to create ...