Tag: tap water
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Fire Destroyed This California Town’s Water System. But That Didn’t Slow The Effort To Rebuild
Five years after the Camp Fire, the town of Paradise is still replacing damaged water lines. But it’s been able to do it in a way that hasn’t slowed down reconstruction. Photo: The Paradise Irrigation District published an online map that it regularly updated with water testing results across the system. (Courtesy: Paradise Irrigation District)…
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The water is contaminated. But California bottled water program isn’t helping this town
A failed 50-year-old well in late May meant boiling water for Earlimart residents. But even as the boil order was recently lifted, many are fearful of contaminated tap water, relying on bottled water for the indefinite future. The cost of buying cases of bottled water for cooking and drinking is adding up for residents of…
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At least 2% of US public water systems are like Flint’s – Americans just don’t hear about them
More than five years after Flint’s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its water. The most recently available testing , from the second half of 2018, puts the lead in Flint’s water at 4 parts per billion. That’s well below the level, 15 ppb, that the…
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There’s plastic in your tap water, beer, and table salt
Photo: An albatross that has succumbed to starvation due to overconsumption of plastic particles. Chris Jordan via Ars Electronica on Flickr. Kosuth M, Mason SA, Wattenberg EV (2018) Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194970. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194970 You’ve seen it; plastic bottles discarded on the beach, photos of marine life…
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‘You Just Don’t Touch That Tap Water Unless Absolutely Necessary’
Rockcastle Creek flows past residential homes and businesses along Route 3 in the town of Inez, the county seat of Martin County, Ky. A giant coal sludge spill in October 2000 contaminated the county’s rivers for miles, and locals still don’t trust the water. Rich-Joseph Facun for NPR Aleigha Sloan can’t remember ever drinking a…
