Editor’s note: This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an editorially independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in partnership with Report For America and funded by the Walton Family Foundation.
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River policy: New legislation aims to safeguard Mississippi River water, traffic
A map of the Mississippi River basin, its major tributaries and the hypoxic “dead zone” where they drain into the Gulf of Mexico.





