Where Water Quality and Quantity Intersect

Guest Post by Steve Siegel It is a hot summer day and you are off to your favorite swimming hole, joyfully anticipating your first leap into its crystal clear, refreshing water, followed by the magnificent shake of your body as you surface, spraying water in every direction. You can hardly wait, recklessly racing your dog to the water. You arrive to find a pool of brownish, greenish, stagnant water, barely knee deep. Skidding to a halt, you no longer want to even dip your toes into what you have found. When imaging a swimming hole, we don’t just think of a pool of deep water and we don’t just imagine clear, clean water. We think of both. ...