Study: In Cuba, Cleaner Rivers Follow Greener Farming

For the first time in more than 50 years, a team of Cuban and U.S. scientists have worked together to study the impacts of agriculture on water quality in 25 Cuban rivers. The findings: recent decades of conservation farming appear to be paying dividends. More: http://go.uvm.edu/3ye01

Could Cuba be a model for improving global agriculture?
New research finds Cuban rivers are cleaner than the Mississippi, with less nitrogen pollution.
Despite centuries of intensive farming, the team of U.S. and Cuban geologists didn't see deep damage from agriculture.
Why? Greener farming practices since the 1990's.
"There's a takeaway we bring back to the U.S. Our river waters do not need to look the way they do. We can manage fertilizer differently," says UVM geologist Paul Bierman.

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