What Wyoming can teach us about water quality by David Swann, December 18, 2011, Calgary Herald
The Environmental Protection Agency’s three year investigation into water quality problems in Wyoming created a stir in Alberta recently. Some industry people and journalists have dismissed the findings, but the conclusions are very credible and disturbing, according to water geo-chemistry expert Karlis Muehlenbachs at the University of Alberta.
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