Officials in Iowa and Missouri estimated that nearly 800,000 fish had died in waters that flow into the Missouri River.

“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Our government needs a nation technology team. They could provide infrastructure and code to the state organizations that set up these systems so they could keep managing things on their own but in a consistent way that can be shared across states. Any Web site the government needs to build should use the libraries and tools provided by that team. It would save time and money and give so many benefits.