Tag: children
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How to Ensure Optimal Water Quality for Your Family
How to ensure optimal water quality for your family? Photo: pixabay The world is changing faster than you can blink, and with these changes come unknown dangers which you sometimes can’t even hear, see or taste. The most important question that arises from this conundrum is – how to keep your family safe? Water is…
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What Nashville’s Metro Schools Isn’t Telling You About Lead In Water
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — There’s a lot that Metro Schools isn’t revealing in its Friday-night "news dump" about its testing for lead in school water. After NewsChannel 5 Investigates first raised questions about the issue back in June, Metro Schools announced that they would test every drinking water source in every one of their buildings before…
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What About Lead?
Since 2014, and the crisis that rocked the community of Flint, Mich., lead in drinking water has been a topic thrust into the headlines and the minds of millions of Americans. Due to the introduction of highly acidic water from the Flint River and insufficient water-treatment techniques, children who consumed this lead-tainted water had 46…
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This is amazing – Eva got the clean water she demanded!
Eva Tolage, a young activist from Tanzania, launched Stand With Eva back in February 2015 and since then has been campaigning locally and nationally to get a clean supply of water for her community and school. Now, just over a year since Eva launched her campaign, a new water point has been installed at her…
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Lead Poisoning Afflicts Neighborhoods across California
Dozens of California communities have experienced recent rates of childhood lead poisoning that surpass those of Flint, Michigan, with one Fresno locale showing rates nearly three times higher, blood testing data obtained by Reuters shows. The data shows how lead poisoning affects even a state known for its environmental advocacy, with high rates of childhood…
