Soil and Water in Delaware
Almost every aspect of the environment on Earth will improve as we move away from fossil fuel. We need to move quickly. High-nitrogen farming using fertilizer from fossil fuel grows most of the world's food. High-nitrogen farming over the past one-hundred years improved farm productivity but has devastated our soil and water. High-nitrogen farming kills soil microbes that create new soil and create the the active filter that protects our water.
Delaware, since the Euro-American settlements, has lost more soil and water compared to every other State. States adjacent to Delaware have similar environmental challenges but respond through public education, regulation and legislation to repair non-agricultural areas while everyone waits for the end of High-nitrogen farming.
Our environment is repairable. People everywhere make decisions that help repair the environment when they know the environment is damaged. We want information and references in the section below to be interesting and we hope everyone wants to know more.
Information about Delaware soil and water from universities and environmental groups is being added to the list, below.
Entries below are about the past including how we’ve responded to environmental problems.
1) What did Delaware look like in the beginning? We’ve got pictures ! That is, painters captured the early landscape and we can learn from the artist’s work. {future}
2) What do we know about the history and health of water in Delaware? Charles Hardy, professor at West Chester University, wrote an extensively referenced paper about the American Shad fish. To learn the history of Coastal Delaware water - Follow The Fish !
3) Sierra Club articles on the environment cover physical facts and the politics behind public policy. The following links open Sierra Club articles from 2022 that could not be more relevant if they had been written this week.