Tag: drinking water
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Alabama: Birmingham opposes coal mine near drinking water source
Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com A drinking water intake facility for the Birmingham Water Works Board along the Black Warrior River’s Mulberry Fork is about five miles from the site of a proposed coal mine in Walker County, Ala. This facility provides drinking water for 200,000 people. The Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Water Works Board…
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Kenya’s Water Women
In the western Kenyan town of Kakamega and the nearby village of Sisokhe, social worker Rose Atieno and nurse Catherine Ondele are using rainwater-harvesting technology to bring clean water to villages. As Atieno says, the men in rural villages make the water policies, but it is the women who feel the “pinch”: collecting water is…
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NOAA and partners team up to prevent future Great Lakes drinking water crisis
Video of Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis A new video SMART BUOYS: Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis released by Ocean Conservancy describes how NOAA forecast models provide advance warnings to Lake Erie drinking water plant managers to avoid shutdowns due to poor water quality. An inter-agency team of public and private…
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FPL Wins Battle to Store Radioactive Waste Under Miami’s Drinking Water Aquifer
Update 1/17: Environmental activists have started a petition urging Florida lawmakers to prevent FPL from storing waste underground. South Florida sits atop two gigantic underground stores of water: the Biscayne and Floridan Aquifers. Miamians get most of their drinking water from the upper Biscayne Aquifer, while the government has used the lower portion of the…
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Dioxane detected in Ann Arbor drinking water from Barton Pond for first time
ANN ARBOR, MI – Recent lab tests at Ann Arbor’s water treatment plant indicated 1,4-dioxane in the city’s surface water supply and in the finished drinking water. Results from samples collected Feb. 6 estimated concentrations of 0.061 parts per billion at the city’s intake in Barton Pond and 0.030 ppb in the treated drinking water.…
