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  • Water treatment for cement plant wastewater

    Water treatment for cement plant wastewater

    Highlighting the importance of water treatment for cement plant wastewater. A cement plant wastewater treatment system has to be highly effective in order to remove the minute particulate that remains after cement production. This task becomes even more important when a closed system – the industry standard – is in place and the waste water…

  • U.S. Steel dumps more toxic chromium near Lake Michigan, faces lawsuit

    U.S. Steel dumps more toxic chromium near Lake Michigan, faces lawsuit

    Six months after U.S. Steel dumped a plume of toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary, the company quietly reported another spill at the same northwest Indiana plant and asked state environmental regulators to keep it secret, according to newly released documents. The 56.7 pounds of chromium released in late October by the company’s Midwest…

  • Water board reports highlighted health risk before hepatitis outbreak

    Water board reports highlighted health risk before hepatitis outbreak

    San Diego officials were informed repeatedly of the dangers of disease-carrying runoff from homeless encampments into area waterways, as far as a decade before the current hepatitis A crisis spurred action. Typical of the volumes of reports is a 2015 city plan for Mission Bay, which cited hepatitis research in setting priorities for officials regarding…

  • Private water wells in Texas test positive for contamination after Harvey

    Private water wells in Texas test positive for contamination after Harvey

    Nearly 60 percent of samples from 50 private water wells in Harris County tested positive for the bacteria sometimes found in feces, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, according to data released Wednesday. The presence of total coliform, the bacteria sometimes found in feces but more commonly in soil and floodwater, was detected along with…

  • 3 [more?] Surprising Ways Water Depends on Healthy Forests

    3 [more?] Surprising Ways Water Depends on Healthy Forests

    Healthy forests are critical to providing clean water. Forests can positively impact the quantity, quality and filtration costs associated with a city’s water, sometimes even reducing the need for costly concrete and steel infrastructure. The world’s major watersheds lost 6 percent of their tree cover on average from 2000-2014. Today, about 31 percent of the…