Category: Public health
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Septic systems are a major source of emerging contaminants in drinking water
Credit: Silent Spring Institute A new analysis shows that septic systems in the United States routinely discharge pharmaceuticals, consumer product chemicals, and other potentially hazardous chemicals into the environment. The study, published June 15 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the most comprehensive assessment to date of septic systems as important sources of…
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No One Has the Data to Prevent the Next Flint
Jim WEST/REPORT DIGITAL-REA/Redux You have no real way of knowing if your town, your family, or your children face the kind of water contamination that exposed everyone in Flint, Michigan, to lead poisoning. Not because Flint is an outlier — it may, in fact, be the norm — but because no one has enough data…
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Health Ranger: heavy metals test results for lead, copper, arsenic, aluminum
(Natural News) THANK YOU to all the Natural News readers and fans who submitted water samples to our lab for ICP-MS testing. Over the last year, we’ve processed over 600 water samples, and we’ve recently updated the 2017 numbers to include the most recent samples. Now, we have 364 water samples in 2017 alone, all…
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America’s Tap Water: Too Much Contamination, Not Enough Reporting
If you live in the United States, there is a nearly one-in-four chance your tap water is either unsafe to drink or has not been properly monitored for contaminants in accordance with federal law, a new study has found. In 2015, nearly 77 million Americans lived in places where the water systems were in some…
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Lawsuit accuses Range Resources and lab of doctoring water test results
This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, PA. A water testing company that worked with Range Resources to evaluate whether or not…
