Tag: children
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Kindergarteners release trout into Feather River
Photo: Kindergarteners observe steelhead trout recently at Butte Vista Elementary School in Yuba City. Standing on the boat ramp at 80 Second St. in Yuba City, two kindergarten classes at Butte Vista Elementary School released steelhead trout into the Feather River last week. Suzanne Price, a kindergarten teacher at Butte Vista Elementary, said she started…
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San Mateo County schools’ drinking water contaminated with nitrate
Image from October shows a beaker filled with water from the faucet at Pescadero Middle/High School in Pescadero, Calif. KGO-TV PESCADERO, Calif. (KGO) — Drinking water is contaminated with nitrate at two San Mateo County schools. It’s a decades-old problem that resurfaced in a local science classroom. “It’s horrible looking right now,” said Cullen Rose,…
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Flint STILL Has a Water Crisis—9 Years Later
Jordan Chariton reports from Flint on the 9th anniversary of the Flint water crisis & cover up. “My water has a sewer smell off and on—and black shiny stuff coming out” —Joelena Freeman Imagine for a moment that you and your children are poisoned. The culprit who attacked you is, unbelievably, your own government. The…
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1 in 3 children worldwide being poisoned by lead from water, air pollution, UN warns
The file photo shows children play in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of the Yamuna River in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, India. Up to 800 million children around the world are being poisoned by lead from water and air pollution, the United Nations warned Thursday in a special report…
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$5 million Allocated for Lead Testing in California Child Care Centers
Assistance prioritized for Child Care Centers caring for infants May 4, 2020 Contact: Edward Ortiz (Edward.Ortiz@waterboards.ca.gov) SACRAMENTO – The State Water Resources Control Board has executed an agreement to provide approximately $5 million in grant funds for testing and remediation of lead in drinking water at licensed Child Care Centers. The passage of Assembly Bill…
