Category: Public health
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3 ways to improve water supplies in small towns
Photo: a public faucet that serves 1,000 families in el Alto, Bolivia. Photo credit: Stephan Bachenheimer / World Bank Small towns typically have not been well served by national or regional water utilities. Decentralization has become increasingly widely adopted, but even if local governments at the small town level have the power to operate a…
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Replacing fixtures will get rid of lead in schools’ drinking water: expert
A top education official Sunday said parents shouldn’t worry about crisis-level lead in local schools’ drinking water — but a water-treatment expert and educator said the city is making a potentially dangerous mistake. Officials recently found lead levels in school faucets and bubblers far exceeding safe levels. Running offending fixtures for a few minutes makes…
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Report: Kentucky Water Systems Serving 1.5 Million Violated Health Standards
Kentucky is ranked near the top of a list no one wants to be on: the states with the highest number of people affected by health-based violations of federal drinking water laws. A new report released Tuesday from the Natural Resources Defense Council says only four states have more people potentially affected by these violations…
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Record Missouri flooding was manmade calamity, scientist says
Intersection of Interstate 44 and Route 141 in St. Louis County, Mo., on Dec. 30, 2015. Water levels more than 4 feet higher than previous record floods closed a 20-mile stretch of the highway. (Photo: © Sid Hastings) At the end of December 2015, a huge storm named “Goliath” dumped 9–10 inches of rain in…
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New York expands drinking water protections for millions
Last week, New York’s leaders did more to protect the Empire State’s rivers and drinking water than at any other time since the modern environmental movement began more than a half a century ago. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature have completed a multi-year plan known as the Water Infrastructure Act…
