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Jackson said the amendment will empower citizens to go to court, if necessary, to enforce those rights.

"We have built everything up that we could possible do to be resilient against high water and now we are finding ourselves on the extreme opposite."

The last 12 months over Lake Ontario have been the driest since 1966, according to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board.

“We all take water for granted. We bathe in it. We cook with it. We drink it. It’s not until something goes wrong with the water that we realize how dependent we are on it."

The “Love Our NY Lands” campaign will include in-person education at trailheads in the Adirondacks and Catskills during the hiking season.

“I think it's going to be excellent trout fishing, especially for beginners because the stocked trout are hungry and not too bright."

"It's like a program or code based on historical water supply records that can simulate what could happen from different decisions."

When the ice melts each spring, the ship visits each of the five lakes to measure basic water quality and sample the “lower food web” -- the tiny animals, plants, and algae that support fish and other aquatic life.

Salty wastewater produced by fracking for oil and gas has to go somewhere. Often, it’s injected into disposal wells deep underground. But sometimes that wastewater can find its way back to the surface and cause environmental problems.

“A lot of these storm pipes are undersized. So they become overwhelmed with stormwater particularly after significant rain events and flooding."