Category: Public health
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Making Us All Sicker: Detroit Water Shut-Offs May Well Have Caused Irreparable Damage
This story we’ve been telling this season, in this comics journalism series exclusive to Truthout, started for folks like Nicole Hill three years ago. For many across the nation and throughout the world, that was when concern for Detroit’s water crisis started — and ended. Focus shifted to Flint, Michigan, and the work of people…
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How a purple school bus brings clean drinking water to Navajo Nation
Photo: Mark Henle/azcentral.com Video (see link below): Mark Sorensen, Star School co-founder, talks about an old school bus that was converted into a solar-powered water desalination system to purify well water for residents on the Navajo Nation. Many in the Navajo Nation don’t have running water and the well water often isn’t safe to drink.…
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After years, Wisconsin industrial barrel plant addresses mercury in water
Photo: Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Mercury has been detected in wastewater coming from an industrial barrel refurbishing plant in St. Francis for at least four years — and more than a dozen times levels exceeded legally permitted limits. Since at least January 2013, records show the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has repeatedly issued warning letters…
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Danger zone: Indiana produces 6th most toxic chemicals in USA
Photo: Indiana residents care more about the environment than you might think, a new poll suggests. Top among their concerns are improving air quality, cleaning up polluted waterways, protecting wildlife and reversing climate change. Dwight Adams/IndyStar (Photo: Priceonomics / Ode to Clean) Indiana released a chemical soup of toxins into the environment last year —…
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Potential Health Effects of Municipal Water Reuse in Kansas
In 2013, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback called on the Kansas Water Office and the Kansas Department of Agriculture to develop a long-term vision for water in Kansas. The resulting Kansas Water Vision provides a set of strategies related to conservation, water management, technological advancements in irrigation and plant varieties, and the development of new sources…
