Category: Public health
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Systemic Failure: Why 1 Million Californians Lack Safe Drinking Water
Small, cash-strapped water districts don’t have the financial, political or technological resources to treat some of the United States’ most contaminated drinking water. Woodville is an unincorporated community in eastern Tulare County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. There are hundreds of small, unincorporated communities like Woodville across the Valley that lack the tax base to…
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Military bases’ contamination will affect water for generations
For decades, day-to-day military operations have contaminated the water at bases across the country, including the now-defunct George Air Force Base in Victorville, Calif. (Briana Smith/News21) VICTORVILLE, CA — Once a fighter jet training base critical to the Cold War, little remains of the former George Air Force Base but rows of dilapidated houses, a…
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Farming activity contaminates water despite best practices
CASCO, Wis. – Lynda Cochart did not realize her water was contaminated with coliform bacteria until she contracted MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant skin infection. She believed it came from the water in her well in Casco, Wisconsin. “There’s no other way I could have gotten it,” she said. A year later, U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist…
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Houston area copes with flooding as Harvey delivers pounding rainfall
(CNN) The sprawling and soaked Houston metro area and other deluged towns in southeast Texas braced for devastating floods and pummeling rainfall on Sunday as Tropical Storm Harvey stalled over land and drenched dogged searchers and anxious residents. A flash flood emergency was in effect for parts of the Houston area. National Weather Service and…
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The Perception Tap Water Is Unsafe Can Harm Poor People’s Health
Photo: Getty Images (Reuters Health via HuffPost) – Black and Hispanic adults in the U.S. have higher rates of mild dehydration than whites, and one reason may be less access to safe, clean tap water, researchers say. Since getting enough water is important for health, policy action is needed to ensure equitable access to healthy…
