Category: Public health
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Sacramento State system lets students check water fountains
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) — Students at Sacramento State University are getting a chance to check the quality of their drinking water right before they take a sip. A new system gives them access to test results for the fountain they want to use on their smart phone. "This place is pretty cool that they’re keeping…
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How a private water company brought lead to Pittsburgh’s taps
Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar “The levels in Pittsburgh are comparable to those reported in Flint” In the summer of 2015, Metropolis Magazine named Pittsburgh one of the world’s “ most livable ” cities and gushed about its infrastructure, “The city has more vertical feet of public stairways than San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Portland, Oregon,…
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Iowa’s water quality problems: What you need to know
In early 2018 the Iowa Legislature took a step in addressing Iowa’s water quality with a plan to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous levels by 45 percent. Kelsey Kremer/The Register It seems like Iowans have feuded over water quality since farmers began draining the swampy prairie more than a century ago to turn it into some…
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No Maternal Health Without Clean Water
What does the water in your glass have to do with the health of mothers and babies around the globe? Quite a lot actually. Without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation — like safe toilet facilities — women face dangerous health risks in pregnancy, during childbirth and in the postpartum period. A woman…
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Why are Texas’ smaller utilities not cleaning up drinking water?
Several recent national studies have found dozens of public utilities in Texas that supply tens of thousands of people with drinking water that contains illegal levels of radiation, lead and arsenic. So how concerned should Texans be when they turn on the tap? For those who live in urban areas, not very. But the studies…
