Category: Public health
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Company benefited from secret budget, refuses to disclose chemicals for Jordan Lake
Marc Alperin with UNC-CH Marine Sciences examines a sediment core collected from the bottom of Jordan Lake. (Photo Credit: UNC Marine Sciences) The SePro Corporation is receiving as much as $1.3 million in taxpayer money to chemically kill the algae in Jordan Lake, but the company is keeping key details of its proposal — including…
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Large algae bloom forms on Lake Okeechobee, could repeat 2016
(Above) A diagram from 2016 shows water flow in South Florida. (Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach Post) Florida’s freshwater heart is choking on nutrient-laden inflows from the north, south and east this summer, but Treasure Coast waterways have so far been spared the damaging Lake Okeechobee discharges that seeded 2016’s widespread algae bloom. In…
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How to Ensure Optimal Water Quality for Your Family
How to ensure optimal water quality for your family? Photo: pixabay The world is changing faster than you can blink, and with these changes come unknown dangers which you sometimes can’t even hear, see or taste. The most important question that arises from this conundrum is – how to keep your family safe? Water is…
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Millions in Michigan exposed to potentially unsafe chemicals in their water
The nonprofit Environmental Working Group’s new nationwide tap water database shows Michigan and U.S. water systems have a number of contaminants, either unregulated or within regulatory levels, that scientific study shows pose a health risk. Wochit (Photo: naumoid, Getty Images/iStockphoto) Nearly 6 million Michigan residents drink, cook with and otherwise use tap water with an…
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Is your drinking water safe? Here’s how you can find out
America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and in serious need of modernization. Pipes are overdue for replacement, and water and wastewater treatment systems need upgrades to deal with new classes of pollutants. Changing a drinking water standard or adding a new substance to the list of contaminants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency is time-consuming.…
