Tag: drinking water
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Drinking Tap Water — the Simplest Solution to Ocean Plastic Pollution?
Is the solution to plastic water bottle pollution as simple as educating the masses that their tap water is safe to drink? Photo: Elite Reader Beaches are beautifully serene places. Imagine waves rolling in over a beautiful white sand beach in a calming splash. Relaxing, no? Now imagine a place where the sand is covered…
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Rep. John Forbes: Iowa water quality bill is watered down
The House along a mostly party line vote passed a watered-down Iowa water quality bill — an effort that even a member of the majority party said showed a lack of leadership and integrity. Iowa’s water quality problem is well documented. Des Moines, Urbandale and other communities battle to provide safe drinking water to their…
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Radium contamination in water most widespread in Texas, environmental group says
More than half of Americans could be drinking tap water tainted with a radioactive element. A new report from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) finds more than 170 million people are exposed to radium in their drinking water. That could increase the risk of cancer. When Dennis Taylor moved with his wife and two…
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U.S. rivers are getting saltier, potentially compromising drinking water
photo: Allison Cekala The bomb cyclone that hit the northeastern United States last week left roadways and vehicles caked in a white film of road salt and grime. Those salts might be washing into the region’s fresh waterways, a new study reveals. A 50-year-long analysis of hundreds of U.S. Geological Survey monitoring sites finds salts…
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Michigan sets limit for chemical contaminants in water
Photo: Katy Batdorff / Special to Detroit News Lansing — Amid growing concern over chemical contaminants in the state’s drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder’s office on Tuesday adopted a threshold for when regulators can act against polluters. The new rule will require state remediation if residential or commercial drinking water is found to have per-…
