Tag: wastewater
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$321 million to improve Hudson water quality — Riverkeeper
Water quality in the Hudson River and its tributaries will benefit from a $320.8 million investment announced by Gov. Cuomo this week. Made possible by the landmark commitments to improving water infrastructure by New York State lawmakers, 36 projects will be funded in the Hudson River watershed, with the help of $53.3 million in state…
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It’s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake
The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas—a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014—has been officially linked to wastewater injection into deep underground wells, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter of that extremely rare earthquake struck near a known fracking operation. The Wichita Eagle…
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California’s Looming Water Pollution Problem, Produced Water
Tom Frantz on his almond grove in Shafter, California. (Photo: Jonas Jungblut) In California’s Central Valley, the oil industry has been dumping wastewater into unlined—and under-regulated—ponds, threatening the state’s limited groundwater and the humans who rely on it. In the winter of 2001, Tom Frantz and a friend were cruising in his pick-up truck along…
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Microplastics are getting into mosquitoes, contaminating new food chains
Photo: Mosquitoes leave the water and take microplastics with them. Shaun Wilkinson/Shutterstock There is no doubt that plastic pollution in oceans is a growing worldwide problem. The internet is full of images of seabirds and other marine animals entangled in plastic waste, and animals starve because their guts are blocked with plastic bags. But the…
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Indigenous Services Provides Update on Water Advisories
[Canada] The federal government has shared the latest results in its efforts to end all long-term drinking water advisories on public systems on Indigenous reserve by March 2021. For the month of August 2018, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Indigenous Services, provided the following update as part of the department’s monthly report on long-term…
