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Salt water creeps toward New Orleans up Mississippi River | New Orleans CityBusiness

Drought upriver has left the Mississippi River so low and slow that salt water is creeping farther than usual along the bottom toward New Orleans and threatening drinking water, the Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday.

Too much saltwater is flowing up the Mississippi River, impacting drinking water in Plaquemines

Due to dry weather causing a lack of freshwater outflow, saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico is encroaching into the Mississippi River and it’s concerning state and local officials.

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