Category: Public health
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‘We Need Answers’: Hurricane Michael Leaves Florida Residents Desperate for Aid
People salvaged supplies from a destroyed business the day after Hurricane Michael made landfall. Credit: Eric Thayer for The New York Times PANAMA CITY, Fla. — It was two days after Hurricane Michael, and Eddie Foster was pushing his mother in a wheelchair down a thoroughly smashed street, his face creased with a concentrated dose…
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New water tests in Houston find cancer-causing chromium 6
HOUSTON – The numbers are in and there’s no denying it: People in Houston are drinking chromium 6. Scientists agree that at a certain point – chromium 6 can cause cancer. What remains up for debate is whether the amount in our water is harmful. While chromium 6 can be found in small amounts across…
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At some Detroit schools, toxins in water reached excessive levels
DPSCD has been using water stations and bottled water while the district determines a permanent means to deliver safe, clean water to students. (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr., The Detroit News) As Detroit’s school district develops plans to make drinking water safe inside its buildings, a review of testing data shows one school had more than…
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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…
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Tucson Water mistakenly sent contaminated water to thousands of residents
Photo: Well water injected with hydrogen peroxide passes through UV/AOP Reactors at Tucson Water’s Advanced Oxidation Process Water Treatment facility near Irvington and I-19 on Sept. 26, 2018. Ultraviolet light, used in concert with hydrogen peroxide, creates a photochemical process that breaks down 1,4-dioxane molecules into harmless components. Water treated at AOP is passed to…
