Tag: drinking water
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Girl Power Helping After Hurricane Harvey
Photo: Ready to Help – Well Aware volunteers helped distribute thousands of water filtration bags to Hurricane Harvey survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast. How Toyota’s Mothers of Invention banded together to get the Texas Gulf Coast back on its feet after Hurricane Harvey Thousands of miles separate Andrea Sreshta, Tricia Compas-Markman and Sarah Evans.…
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In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes.
Photo: A stream in San Cristóbal de las Casas, which residents claim is contaminated with sewage. Potable water is scarce in the town. Editor’s note: h2oIQ.org focuses on USA water issues, but we know San Cristóbal well as one of the most beautiful little cities we’ve ever seen. Its people are wise in traditional, indigenous…
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Chemicals that keep drinking water flowing may also cause fouling
The top image shows a thin and stiff biofilm formed from untreated water, and the bottom image shows a thick and soft biofilm that formed as a result of polyphosphate treatment. Credit: Helen Nguyen Many city drinking water systems add softening agents to keep plumbing free of pipe-clogging mineral buildup. According to new research, these…
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Michigan Faces Another Toxic Water Crisis
Now Its Governor Wants a Chemical Company to Pay Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has asked the state attorney general to sue chemical giant 3M, suggesting that the company must pay for making toxic chemicals that wound up in the drinking water. Towns across America are coming to grips with an alarming new source of water…
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Toilet to tap? Daytona Beach experiments with turning treated wastewater into drinking water
The city of Daytona Beach is part of a new pilot program to experiment with turning treated wastewater into drinking water. The city is working with Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the St. Johns River Water Management District on the project. The city has built a treatment facility for the two-year pilot project, but…
