Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there's water - rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $63 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $200 million a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports.
They are also home to some insidious polluters: The same oil and gas industry, 200 petrochemical plants along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year. At the same time SoLa is home to one of America's most vital and unique cultures; if everyone who lives there has a water story they can also most likely play the fiddle, waltz, cook an etouffe and hunt and fish.
Only one known planet can sustain human life, and that’s Earth. Can we solve our environmental problems in time to avoid mass human suffering? Learn More »
less than a minute ago
A car accident compels an equine veterinarian and his drug-addicted son to confront their wounded relationship
less than a minute ago
Thrill-seeking football fans make their way to Florida as part of a tailgating road trip
less than a minute ago
Climate change and drought has ravaged the livelihoods of millions in Kenya, but many are fighting back
DISCUSS SOLA: LOUISIANA WATER STORIES
Thank you for commenting. Sign up to get updates on new releases.
OR
using Facebook
Skip | Don't ask me again.