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Video: How drones could limit fertilizer flow into Lake Erie

September 8, 2014 - PBS News Hour

Farmer Jeff Sandborn thinks this drone could help solve the tainted water problem that left Toledo, Ohio without access to safe drinking water for three days earlier this summer. That’s because experts believe the toxic algal bloom in Lake Erie that turned tap water noxious was caused by the fertilizer runoff from farms like Sandborn’s throughout the Great Lakes Basin.

How drones could limit fertilizer flow into Lake Erie PBS Newshour, September 9, 2014