Zebra mussels and quagga mussels are virtually identical both physically and behaviorally. Originally from Eastern Europe, these tiny trespassers were picked up in the ballast water of ocean-going ships and brought to the Great Lakes in the 1980s. By 1990 zebra mussels and quagga mussels had infested all of the Great Lakes.
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This is a collection of articles that present two sides of an issue. This is a great resource for assignments of argument, persuasion or analysis. Scholarly articles can be found here.
KELO (Sioux Falls, SD) 2019-9-26
"As design work continues on a $37 million drinking water treatment plant in Pierre, officials are looking at how to keep a new threat under control; the zebra mussel."
KPVI (Pocatello, Idaho) 2019-5-4
"Perhaps the most remarked upon feature of the bill is a fee levied on utility companies that own non-federal hydroelectric facilities."
Fox 44- KWKT (Nexstar Broadcasting) 2018-5-26
"Lake Waco is a drinking source, you know, for the City of Waco," Heuring says. "So if we get zebra mussels problems, we are going to have a lot of issues with our pipes..."
WTOL 11 (Toledo, OH) 2018-1-22
"A chemical meant to manage the zebra mussel population may also help tackle the harmful algae around the City of Toledo's water intake crib."
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