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Terrorist threats and natural disasters threatening your drinking water
CNN - Study Water supplies seen getting more scarce
The number of people living in countries facing severe water shortages will increase more than four-fold over the next 25 years, according to a report.ENN - How safe are the United States from cyanide
Scientists are calling it the worst environmental disaster in more than a decade: a cyanide spill from a Romanian gold mine that has sent a channel of death coursing through eastern Europe's rivers. Is a similar disaster waiting to happen in the United States?ENN - Fertilizers spell death for amphibians
Drinking water that the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for humans may be perilous to amphibians.CNN - Water, water everywhere - but will there be enough to drink
Water is the most common substance on Earth, covering more than 70 percent of the planet's surface. Water makes up two-thirds of our own bodies. But the abundance of water is an illusion. Only a tiny fraction of the planet's water is drinkable.CNN - Populations outrunning water supplies
Water tables are falling on every continent and major rivers are being drained dry before they reach the sea, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute that draws a direct link between water availability, population growth and food security.ABC News.com Ecologists Promoting Polluting the Water
It might seem like a profound ecological contradiction deliberately poisoning a lake or river to make it better for fish. But on a remote stretch of Montana ranchland owned by media mogul Ted Turner, along a peaceful tarn and meandering stream pressing up against the Spanish Peaks mountains, wildlife officials confront a piscatorial paradox.ENN - Salt plagues Australia drinking water
In the latest revelation in Australia's dryland salinity crisis, unless new agricultural practices are adopted in southern Australia, residents there will need to buy water or find new water sources because their water will be too salty to drink, a science briefing forum was told in state parliament.CNN - Hurricane Floyd leaves contamination concern in New Jersey, North Carolina
Fears of contamination have prompted health warnings in both New Jersey and North Carolina, in the aftermath of hurricane Floyd. In New Jersey, more than 1 million people were under orders Tuesday to boil their tap water. In North Carolina, drinking water was tainted by overflow from sewage plants and animal waste lagoons. Floodwaters have been fouled by fuel, farm chemicals and manure.Harvard Magazine - The Micro-Menace of Biofilm
If you could take a fantastic voyage down the pipes that carry your drinking water, the variety of microbial creatures you would encounter might prove a bit unnerving. Most of us assume that filtration and chlorination provide us with safe, if not good-tasting, tap water. Not so, says Tim Ford, associate professor of environmental microbiology and director of the recently established Program in Water and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.CNN - Droughts come and go, but growing demand for water remains
(CNN) -- Supply and demand is a pretty simple concept: You want it, we'll make it. You want more, we'll make more. And with the world population tripling in the past 75 years, we've been making a lot more of just about everything. Except water. With a ruinous drought inspiring headlines and headaches in much of the United States, we're reminded that however much our demand for water may grow, barring new success with water-making technology, we've already got about all the water we're ever going to have.CNN - River emitting N2O - January 13, 1999
(CNN) --Rivers may be emitting significant amounts of nitrous oxide as a result of effluents from wastewater treatment plants and agricultural fields, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey.CNN - Milwaukee learned its water lesson - Sept. 2, 1996
MILWAUKEE (CNN) -- Until 1993, most Americans took the cleanliness of public drinking water for granted. The United States has a reputation for high standards in its water systems; it wasn't until a parasite slipped through the cracks in Milwaukee and killed more than 100 people that water systems managers started to take a closer look at how they monitored their product.Back to Top
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CNN - EPA orders dredging of New York's Hudson River
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the dredging of 40 miles of New York's Hudson River contaminated by potentially cancer-causing chemicals. About 200 miles of the 315-mile-long Hudson north of Albany have been contaminated by PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenlys.KC Star - Sewage spill closes Kansas River drinking water intake
Water treatment officials in Johnson County have shut down the district's Kansas River intake after telephone company contractors laying fiber-optic cable bored into a sewage line.KC Star - Fumes, foul water surface in region
In Missouri, MTBE has contaminated water in 20 towns. In Kansas, the chemical has polluted 19 of the state's 1,122 public water supplies since 1996.CNN - EPA delays lower arsenic standards for water
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to withdraw Clinton administration-approved rules to lower the limit for arsenic in drinking water until more study is done.ENN - Dartmouth Researcher Warns of Chemicals Added to Drinking Water
In a recent article in the journal NeuroToxicology, a research team reports evidence that public drinking water treated with sodium silicofluoride or fluosilicic acid, known as silicofluorides (SiFs), is linked to higher uptake of lead in children.DFP - Detroit raises price of water
The Detroit City Council approved a water and sewer rate hike that officials say will result in safer drinking water and cleaner rivers.ABC - High Court Limits Clean Water Act
The Supreme Court�s conservative majority continued its gradual erosion of federal powers over the states with an important ruling limiting the scope of a landmark environmental law.ABC - Pesticide Use Blamed in Frog Loss
Pesticides from California farms are carried by summer winds to the Sierra Nevada, federal researchers say, apparently causing frog deaths in mountain lakes and streams.CNN - Canada makes inquiry into E. coli-contaminated water system
False test results. Mislabeled samples. Drinking on the job. Testimony at an inquiry into North America's worst E. coli contamination, which killed seven people and sickened 2,300, shows a town water system run by two brothers who falsified records to fend off regulators.CNN - U.S. Marines seek families exposed to chemicals
The U.S. Marine Corps is seeking thousands of people who lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, between 1968 and 1985, when they could have been exposed to contaminated water suspected of causing birth defects and childhood cancers.ABC - Authorities Investigate Tainted Water in NYC
Five people in New York City have now been sickened after drinking bottled water contaminated with chemicals, and authorities were trying to determine whether the cases were linked and involved tampering.KC's water crisis passes, but raises other concerns
A water-main break, believed to be the worst in the city's history, closed businesses and affected 150,000 people. It prompted officials to announce a boil order for drinking water. The order was lifted Tuesday morning after tests showed the water was safe.KC Star - St. Joseph residents bristle at hard water and prospect of higher bills
The thirsty in St. Joseph can agree on only one thing about the drinking water -- it's wet. Otherwise, one person's refreshing thirst quencher from the kitchen faucet is liquid yuck to another.ABC - EPA Proposes to Limit Arsenic in your Water
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to reduce the limit for arsenic allowed in drinking water to one-tenth the current standard in an effort to reduce cancer risks. The agency proposed on Wednesday to reduce the arsenic allowed in drinking water from 50 parts per billion to five parts per billion.Detroit Free Press - Gas spill near Jackson forces 450 home owners out
Fans failed to move the muggy June air out of the Northwest High School gymnasium on Thursday or cool the tempers of residents displaced by a gasoline spill, and worried about the safety of their drinking water and the value of their homes.CNN - Sewage water flowed in their faucets
The tap water at Zelma McCoy's house was the color of mud. Neighbor Christy Chua was bothered by the stench. "Whenever we'd take a shower it really smelled," she told CNN.CNN - Utility knew of E. coli contamination but did nothing, Canadian officials say
Walkerton's water utility knew the town's water supply was contaminated but did nothing to avert what has turned into Canada's worst-ever outbreak of E. coli, according to health officials. The outbreak has killed five people this week, including a 2-year-old girl. Five other children and four adults are in critical condition.CNN - Water quality suffers on Nebraska tribal lands
The United States has one of the safest drinking water supplies in the world, but the percentage of contaminated drinking-water wells on Native American reservations in Nebraska far exceeds national and regional averages, scientists from the University of Arkansas report.Science News - More Waters Test Positive for Drugs
Over the past decade, European chemists have been documenting widespread pharmaceutical contamination of their lakes, streams, and groundwater. In San Francisco this week, U.S. and Canadian scientists offered preliminary confirmation that traces of drugs, excreted by people and livestock, similarly pollute American waters.ENN - Southeast groundwater pollution feared
Recently a University of Florida geologist found evidence that the river and stream water feeding Florida's many springs travels through a different underground system that could lessen the quality of drinking water in north Florida and throughout the Southeast.ENN - USGS tallies the extras in our water
Streams that pass through agricultural and urban areas almost always contain complex mixtures of nutrients and pesticides, but aquatic species are more at risk than humans, according to a report released by the U.S. Geological Survey.CNN - West Coast warned of warming woes
Warm, wet winters and dry, hot summers over the next century are predicted to wreak havoc on West Coast water supplies, according to two recently released studies on the impact a few degree rise in temperature over that period of time.ABCNEWS.com Recent E. coli Outbreak in New York
Nearly 600 people have been sickened and one child died in the largest E. coli outbreak in New York history. Officials are looking at contaminated drinking water as the culprit in the outbreak of the deadly bacteria. But New Yorkers aren�t the only ones who have some reason to be worried about E. coli showing up in the water supply.CNN - Droughts come and go, but growing demand for water remains
(CNN) -- Supply and demand is a pretty simple concept: You want it, we'll make it. You want more, we'll make more. And with the world population tripling in the past 75 years, we've been making a lot more of just about everything. Except water. With a ruinous drought inspiring headlines and headaches in much of the United States, we're reminded that however much our demand for water may grow, barring new success with water-making technology, we've already got about all the water we're ever going to have.ERF - Drugs In The Water
A new class of water pollutants has been discovered during the past six years. Pharmaceutical drugs given to people and to domestic animals --including antibiotics, hormones, strong pain killers, tranquilizers, and chemotherapy chemicals given to cancer patients --are being measured in surface water, in groundwater, and in drinking water at the tap.
Toxic algae returns to Lake Erie, ENN Daily News
If zebra mussels are responsible for the blooms of Microcystis, we should expect the blooms to become more frequent. And that could be really bad news as Microcystis causes harm to other populations, especially humans. In people, the algae can cause vomiting, diarrhea and hepatitis-like symptoms, including intestinal cramps and liver problems.
Science News Online-Drugged Waters Does it matter that pharmaceuticals are turning up in water supplies
Chemists at an agricultural research laboratory run by the Swiss government were screening lake water for pesticide contamination when they ran across a puzzling result....
Salon Newsreal: Fear of fluoride
Is it possible that America's 50-year embrace of fluoridation has been a terrible mistake? "Would you brush your teeth with arsenic?" asks Dr. Robert Carton, a former scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. "Fluoride is somewhat less toxic than arsenic and more toxic than lead, and you wouldn't want either of them in your mouth."
CNN-Drinking fluids reduces bladder cancer risk, study finds-May 5
BOSTON (CNN) -- Men who drink a large amount of fluid reduce their risk of getting bladder cancer by half, according to a new study at the Harvard School of Public Health.
CNN - World water crisis looms, U.N. warns - March 22, 1999
(CNN)-The United Nations predicts that unless efforts are stepped up to bring water to those in need, wars over water will breakout.
CNN - River emitting N2O - January 13, 1999
(CNN) --Rivers may be emitting significant amounts of nitrous oxide as a result of effluents from wastewater treatment plants and agricultural fields, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
CNN - Water worries -- The right filtration system may help - January 11, 1999
(CNN) -- The film "A Civil Action" comes amid renewed questioning about the safety of America's water supply. It opened just days after President Clinton announced higher government standards for drinking water.
CNN - Nuclear waste found to move with groundwater - November 13, 1998
(ENN) -- Scientists studying the movement of groundwater have found that radioactive contaminants can migrate over long distances faster than originally thought.
CNN - Utilities should divulge tap water contents - Feb. 11, 1998
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed rules -- expected to become final later this year -- that would require water utilities to list chemicals and potential contaminants in local tap water
CNN - Toilet water on tap - Apr. 25, 1997
SAN DIEGO (CNN) -- While San Diego is a city of many natural and man-made riches, water isn't one of them. The city imports 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River and the state water project. But engineers have flushed out a startling solution to the region's water woes.
CNN - Wisconsin fights modern farming's water-contaminating ways - Oct. 7, 1996
ARENA, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Farmers have been using weed killers and chemical fertilizers for years to help boost their crop production, but often those chemicals trickle into your drinking water. Wisconsin is taking steps to protect its water sources before it is too late
CNN - Milwaukee learned its water lesson - Sept. 2, 1996
MILWAUKEE (CNN) -- Until 1993, most Americans took the cleanliness of public drinking water for granted. The United States has a reputation for high standards in its water systems; it wasn't until a parasite slipped through the cracks in Milwaukee and killed more than 100 people that water systems managers started to take a closer look at how they monitored their product.Back to Top
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Environment News Service - France Finds High Pesticide Levels in Drinking Water
Testing of French surface and groundwaters has shown widespread contamination by pesticides, the country's environment and agriculture ministries have announced.Back to Top
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Sports and Health Industry news about you drinking water
MSNBC - N.J. cancer cluster tied to water, air
A six-year, $10 million government study of high cancer rates among children in this central New Jersey community found that contaminated well water and air emissions from a chemical factory were linked to some leukemia cases.ABC - Second Opinion: Fluoridation Concerns
Debating Fluoridation...What evidence is there that water fluoridation prevents cavities? About 60 percent of the American water supply is fluoridated, but some question if the practice helps prevent cavities.BabyCenter - Is tap water, bottled water, or boiled water best for formula
Is tap water, bottled water, or boiled water best for formula? The answer to this question really depends on your child's age...CNN - Legionella bacteria found at Baltimore County hospital
Officials at St. Joseph Medical Center banned showers and distributed bottled water to patients Friday after an inspection of the hospital's hot water system revealed the presence of the bacteria that can cause Legionnaire's disease.ABC - Radium Contamination Found in Well Water
Radium contamination has been found in well water used by hundreds of homeowners who live just north of Annapolis along the Severn and Magothy rivers. Of the 1,300 wells tested by Anne Arundel County workers, 63 percent had elevated levels of the cancer-causing substance.ABC NEWS - The Dentist's Dirty Secret
For many of us, going to the dentist is a traumatic experience. The poking and drilling that goes on for those few hours does not make any future visits any more inviting. Now imagine that the water used during all of those dental procedures was so laden with bacteria, some experts compare it to pond scum.ABC News - Seeking a Reason for Water Pollution
From E. coli bacteria on Milwaukee lakefronts to the mysterious presence of human-originated viruses in the waters off southern California�s sandy playgrounds, the discovery of such invisible threats is forcing the United States to rethink how to deploy public funds to clean up rivers, lakes, and beaches.Weed killer poses risks to infants, ENN News
A popular weed killer sprayed on Midwestern cornfields each spring contaminates drinking water and poses a serious health risk to infants and children, according to a report released by the Environmental Working Group.ABC NEWS - Life in a Cancer Cluster
Toms River, N.J., has a childhood cancer rate 30 percent higher than the statistical average. Residents blame two local companies for polluting the drinking water. For more than two years, federal and state scientists have been studying this section of Dover Township after data from the state cancer registry revealed that cancer was diagnosed in 24 Toms River residents younger than 19 between 1979 and 1995 � 10 more than statistically expected.HealthCentral - Cancer Risk from Chlorinated Water
A substance created by a chemical reaction in chlorinated drinking water caused several types of tumors in rats, a new study shows. Chlorine has been added to drinking water since the turn of the century in the U.S., as a way of preventing water-borne diseases. Chlorine prevents bacterial growth in water and helps prevent transmission of diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, and dysentery.CNN - Beat the heat while you stay healthy and fit - July 26, 1999
Proper hydration is a must. No matter how you choose to exercise or in whatever time of year you choose to do it, your body needs water. Water accounts for approximately 55 percent to 60 percent of an adult's body weight. While a loss of 10 percent may pose a significant health risk, a loss of 20 percent can result in death.Ask Dr. Weil - Q&A Drink More Water
Q. How much water do you recommend a person should drink per day? What are the consequences of not drinking enough?ABC News-IVs Aren't the Best Way to Rehydrate Athletes
When champagne sprayed through the locker room after the Dallas Cowboys clinched a spot in the 1993 Super Bowl, Emmitt Smith was nowhere to be found. The star running back was so dehydrated that he could barely stand, let alone celebrate.CNN - Study Water-treatment byproduct linked to cancer in rats - June 17, 1997
ATLANTA (CNN) -- A byproduct of chlorination in drinking water has been linked to cancer in rats, leading the government to investigate adverse effects of water disinfectants.CNN - Study Some home water filters may make lead problem worse - June 18, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- A California environmental group says some home water filtration systems, designed to make drinking water more pure, may actually be increasing the amount of lead in the water.CNN - Bottled water taps into health angst - November 28, 1997
(CNN) --"If you live in places where there are known contaminants and where water systems have been condemned because of environmental spills of various sorts -- maybe a chemical factory used to be over that site, for instance -- then it's obviously an advantage to have bottled water," says Prof. Dickson Despommier of the Columbia University School of Public Health. "Then you're obliged to drink it. "CNN - Food and Health News Weed-killer in water
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- You may be tossing back weed-killer with your drinking water, especially if you live in the Midwest. According to a new report, pesticides contaminate tap water supplies in dozens of American cities during the growing season, when levels frequently can exceed federal standards.
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