{"id":3433,"date":"2026-05-27T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:11:44","slug":"widespread-heavy-metal-pollution-in-ohio-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/widespread-heavy-metal-pollution-in-ohio-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread Heavy Metal Pollution in Ohio Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest water quality monitoring along the Ohio River shows that, due to industrial discharges and historical chemical spills, concentrations of lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium continue to exceed safety limits, with pollution spreading from the main river to its tributaries. Drinking water intake points in several riverside towns have been forced to shut down, leaving more than 80,000 residents reliant on bottled water; fish in the river are suffering from deformities and mass deaths, and wetland ecosystems have been destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest water quality monitoring along the Ohio River shows that, due to industrial discharges and historical chemical spills, concentrations of lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium continue to exceed safety limits, with pollution spreading from the main river to its tributaries. Drinking water intake points in several riverside towns have been forced to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}