Category: Public health
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Red-faced U.S. Navy at Red Hill?
Photo courtesy of My Kailua Opinion Fresh, potable water is an everyday miracle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To have enough to supply millions with (relatively) few constraints on usage? It’s almost unimaginable. And, perhaps, too precarious to want to imagine. Of course, the water in Hawai’i serves more than latecomer humans. Endemic…
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‘Water is a human right,’ Democrats say…
…with new bills addressing Flint crisis, Detroit shutoffs Photo: State Rep. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit, introduces a package of water quality and affordability bills on November 12, 2015. LANSING, MI — Flint mom Melissa Mays believes her three sons are starting to struggle in school because they drank contaminated city water, and she’s worried the full…
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Principal Aquifers of the United States
This principal aquifers map is available for download as a wall-map-sized PDF (14.4 MB), a printable PDF (1.7 MB), or available for purchase from the USGS Store. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water…
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Environmental group: Iowa’s waterway cleanup plan could take 22,000 years
The nonprofit’s latest review of the state’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy – the backbone of Iowa’s water quality efforts – found the plan still isn’t working, in the council’s view. State leaders, including the agriculture secretary, insist the program is making progress.
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‘Everything is drying up’: As springs on Hopi land decline, a sacred connection is threatened
Max Taylor, a Hopi Tribe water resources technician, stands near Lemeva Spring on the Hopi Reservation on July 30, 2020. The Hopi say they have used this spring for over a thousand years. DAVID WALLACE/THE REPUBLIC The Hopi see influence of climate change — and suspect a link to coal industry’s groundwater pumping. MISHONGNOVI —…
