Tag: groundwater
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Systemic Failure: Why 1 Million Californians Lack Safe Drinking Water
Small, cash-strapped water districts don’t have the financial, political or technological resources to treat some of the United States’ most contaminated drinking water. Woodville is an unincorporated community in eastern Tulare County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. There are hundreds of small, unincorporated communities like Woodville across the Valley that lack the tax base to…
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Scheme to pump water to L.A. could destroy the Mojave Desert
Photo: An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, California, on Sept. 3, 2008. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Unlike some deserts, California’s Mojave Desert is full of life. There are tortoises and bighorn sheep, breathtaking wildflower blooms and Joshua trees. Many of the state’s plant and…
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Millions in Michigan exposed to potentially unsafe chemicals in their water
The nonprofit Environmental Working Group’s new nationwide tap water database shows Michigan and U.S. water systems have a number of contaminants, either unregulated or within regulatory levels, that scientific study shows pose a health risk. Wochit (Photo: naumoid, Getty Images/iStockphoto) Nearly 6 million Michigan residents drink, cook with and otherwise use tap water with an…
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Getting to clean water: Complex problem, no easy solutions
photo: Friends of the Mississippi River executive director Whitney Clark pours water from the Mississippi River into a tube used to monitor water clarity at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul on Monday. If you’re looking for one place that best illustrates the challenges facing Minnesota’s water, paddle a canoe just past Pike Island,…
