The Mississippi river is no longer the subject of random journeys and wonderful literary stories as it once was. Today, if you read about the Mississippi, you are more likely to be told of its large patches of low oxygen water known in the scientific community as hypoxia, and called by nonscientists the Dead Zone. This lecture examines how we came to this point where the Mississippi, the greatest river in the nation, and one of the largest in the world, is gradually dying; and what has happened to the rich legacy of rivers, and to the pride and sense of community they once brought to the United States. The lecture lasts 1 hour and 11 minutes.
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