Lake Atitlan: A Tarnished Beauty

CEO of Blue Water Satellite wants to help monitor problem with satellite imaging

By Greg Szymanski, JD
Aug. 13, 2010

The fresh water on our planet is in serious danger as more lakes and reservoirs are being taken over by toxic cyanobacteria, leaving the water undrinkable and dangerous to human health.

Save Lake Atitlan Mission, a Colorado non profit group, has tried to raise awareness of this serious problem, first using Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalen Highlands as a prime example.

The first step is to place an effective monitoring system into place because before you can solve a problem, the problem must be accurately identified.

Milt Baker, CEO of Blue Water Satellite in Ohio, a satellite imaging company specializing in detecting deadly cyanobacteria, has taken an interest in Lake Lake Atitlan.

Here are two blogs recently posted by Baker, emphasizing the seriousness of the problem at Lake Atitlan and how out dated and traditional hand grab sampling for cyanobacteria just doesn’t cut it anymore.

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