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Unsafe Water Kills More People Than Disasters And Conflicts
Unsafe Water Kills More People Than Disasters And Conflicts Fewer people around the world lack access to basic drinking water services than when the data was last published in 2015. Yet, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz explains below, several countries, especially in Africa, still have a way to go to provide their citizens with safe drinking water. You will […]
Our Food Is Killing the Planet — But It Doesn’t Have To
Our Food Is Killing the Planet — But It Doesn’t Have To A new book asks, “Can we feed the world without destroying it?” The answers might surprise you. The world needs to change the way it eats, not just as individuals but as a society. That’s the message from a groundbreaking report issued last month by […]
The toxic price of convenience
The toxic price of convenience As many as 110 million Americans may be drinking water contaminated by a toxic class of chemicals that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are used in “stain- and water-repellent fabrics, nonstick products (e.g., Teflon), polishes, waxes, paints, cleaning products, and fire-fighting foams (a major source of groundwater […]
How To Survive A Boil Notice
How To Survive A Boil Notice The most important element in survival is clean water — but what do you do when it’s contaminated?This online class teaches everything you need to know Start learning today. A friend in Puerto Rico, Jennifer, tells me that her town has been on a boil notice for 5 1/2 […]
Michigan Faces ANOTHER Water Crisis
Michigan Faces ANOTHER Water Crisis An emerging new water crisis for Michigan Michigan residents are staring down a new water crisis as the state is scrambling to combat potential health risks in water sources that stem from chemicals long used in firefighting, waterproofing, carpeting and other products. In December of 2017, toxic chemicals have been identified […]
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint (ANTIMEDIA) As the nation rightly focuses on Flint’s ongoing water crisis, other cities in the state of Michigan face even higher levels of lead contamination. The alarming pervasiveness of potentially toxic drinking water extends across the United States. The Detroit News reports that “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in […]
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit
The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has recently become a morality play of a different sort as it captures national headlines highlighting a controversial series of decisions […]
Budget Cuts and Negligence Poisoned the Drinking Water in Flint, Mich.
Budget Cuts and Negligence Poisoned the Drinking Water in Flint, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011. (Michigan Municipal League / CC BY-ND 2.0) Calls for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are intensifying in the face of evidence that he allowed 100,000 residents of the city of Flint to continue cooking, drinking and bathing in […]
Flint’s Contaminated Drinking Water is Third Water Crisis For Michigan Governor
Flint’s Contaminated Drinking Water is Third Water Crisis For Michigan Governor Residents put at risk by ideology, misguided decisions. Photo courtesy Michigan Municipal League via Flickr Creative Commons Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is at the center of criticism over a public health crisis in Flint, where a state decision to switch the city’s water source ended […]
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors
Fukushima police sends nuclear contamination case against TEPCO execs to prosecutors Water tanks storing radiation contaminated water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. © Shizuo Kambayashi / Reuters Fukushima police have finally reacted to a criminal complaint filed against TEPCO and 32 of its […]
Exclusive: Battle Over Flaming Water and Fracking Reignites As Analysis Prompts Call for Renewed EPA Investigation
Exclusive: Battle Over Flaming Water and Fracking Reignites As Analysis Prompts Call for Renewed EPA Investigation At the heart of the international controversy over fracking has been the contention that the oil and gas drilling technique can contaminate people’s drinking water, sometimes even causing it to light on fire. One poster child for this claim has been […]
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money? A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul […]
Higher-risk ‘Shallow Fracking’ More Common than Suspected: Study
Higher-risk ‘Shallow Fracking’ More Common than Suspected: Study Lessons for BC, Alberta in new Stanford report. The fracking of oil and gas less than a mile from aquifers or the Earth’s surface now takes place across North America with few restrictions, posing increased risk for drinking water supplies, says a new Stanford study. The study examined […]
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print When EPA’s long-awaited draft assessment on fracking and drinking water supplies was released, the oil and gas industry triumphantly focused on a headline-making sentence: “We did not find evidence of widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.” But for fracking’s […]
