Zebra mussels were brought to the Great Lakes in ship ballast water during the 1980s. They are among the most serious aquatic ...

For those who are concerned and want to improve the taste of their water, Erie County went on to note that,"These naturally ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...

To track the arrival of invasive species in their beloved lake, the Newfound Lake Region Association monitors data from two ...

Ballast water management is a critical component of modern maritime operations, essential for maintaining vessel stability while posing significant environmental challenges. The inadvertent transport ...

Ballast water sample. Image courtesy SGS. After much discussion and three rounds of votes, text for the interim guidance for ships ballasting in challenging, high sediment water was finally approved ...

Through a lot of expensive and dangerous trial-and-error over multiple centuries — sometimes resulting in shipwrecks you still can explore today — humans have ...

It was never going to be realistic to expect treated ballast water to have zero viable organisms on discharge. The G8 guidelines that define the type approval process for ballast water treatment ...