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    SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories

    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.

    PART 1: A giant wake-up call
    PART 2: The end of fishing in the gulf
    PART 3: Government plays an important role
    PART 4: Man vs. nature in the wetlands
    PART 5: Shell-shocked in Lafitte

    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.

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