Tag: drinking water
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Data Shows San Diego Officials Misled the Public on Potential Source of Lead in Water
Photo by Will Huntsberry The city isn’t sure what 192,000 of its water lines are made of. No other major California cities have such a massive gap in recordkeeping – one that could cost the city between $192 million and $960 million if it doesn’t take drastic steps to account for the make of those…
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What is an ‘impaired’ waterway and why are so many in Pennsylvania?
Photo: Pennsylvania’s “Category 5” streams include the Juniata and Susquehanna rivers and many creeks, such as the Yellow Breeches in Cumberland County. More than a third of Pennsylvania’s lakes and a fifth of its streams are impaired, meaning that pollution has (or should have, anyway) hindered their use for drinking water supplies, fishing, recreation or…
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A crisis in Kentucky shows the high cost of clean drinking water
Photo: Junior Hunt, left, and Bobby Fletcher pick up donated water in Huntleyville, Ky., to share with Martin County residents. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) April 16 2019 LOVELY, Ky. — When the well water here turned brown and started tasting salty, Heather Blevins’s parents hooked their property on Dead Man’s Curve into the municipal…
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Deer Park Says Level Of Benzene Detected In Water Supply Wasn’t Dangerous
David J. Phillip/AP This March 18, 2019, file photo shows firefighters battling the massive fire at a Deer Park petrochemical storage facility owned by Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC). The company testing the water supply detected the dangerous chemical on March 31. The company testing Deer Park’s drinking water supply in the aftermath of the massive…
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Ambassador Marcia Bernicat on the U.S. Global Water Strategy
The overarching goal of the U.S. Global Water Strategy is to create a more water secure world, said Ambassador Marcia Bernicat, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans, and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State at a recent Wilson Center event . “Simply put,” she said, “a world…
