Category: Public health
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How a Yemen Water Plant Helped Cut Cholera by 92 Percent
Why you should care: Because cholera has had a devastating effect on the conflict-ravaged country and can be used as a tool of war. For nearly four years, Yemen, one of the Arab world’s poorest countries, has been ravaged by war. With on-the-ground reporting still difficult, the death toll from fighting and bombing — currently…
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Most Bottled Water Contaminated With Microplastics
Plastic has become an incredibly harmful convenience, now threatening environmental and human health alike, and in more ways than one. With Earth Day being tomorrow [April 2018], there is no better time to analyze the impact bottled water has had on our planet. There’s the issue of bulk plastics in our landfills, where it will…
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Reusable Glass Water Bottles: The Reasons to Ditch the Plastic
Trends come and go, and the living healthy ones aren’t an exception to this, however, one that’s hardly going to change is the importance of staying hydrated with water, daily. While the 8 glasses a day rule isn’t actually well looked into, scientifically, it still doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take drinking more water seriously. Remember,…
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Erin Brockovich is warning about an emerging drinking-water crisis in the USA
Here’s how she recommends you protect yourself. Erin Brockovich, who some of you know as the woman who fought against California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in 1996 and later had a movie made about her, is a fierce supporter of clean water. And because of her work over the last couple of decades, when…
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Bill would limit science Michigan uses to regulate toxic cleanups
Young’s Environmental workers dig into a hillside on House Street NE in Belmont, Mich., where Wolverine World Wide dumped tannery waste on what’s now MDOT property. Photo taken Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Barrels containing tannery waste and animal hides were discovered on the property. (Neil Blake | MLive.com) (Neil Blake | nblake1@mlive.com) LANSING, MI —…
