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07/17/2018
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By Isabelle Z.
Public water in Washington, D.C., was declared unsafe to drink; warnings issued to the public
Many Washington, D.C., residents spent the weekend under a boil water advisory due to a contamination risk. On Friday, DC Water began advising tens of thousands of homes and businesses across a big area of Northeast and Northwest D.C. to boil their tap water before drinking or cooking with it. Around 34,000 people were affected […]
04/23/2018
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By Tracey Watson
Engineers developing low tech solutions to prevent waterborne illnesses in stagnant municipal water systems
Virtually every adult in America is aware of the disaster in Flint, Michigan, in which over 100,000 residents were exposed to dangerously high levels of lead in their drinking water, after the source of that water was changed to the Flint River and the water was not properly treated. What many of us are not […]
07/28/2017
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By Isabelle Z.
California water wells saturated with extremely toxic cancer-causing chemical
The water supply of a million Central California residents is contaminated with what is considered one of the most powerful carcinogens on the planet, and now the state is making a move to try to get the problem under control as the lawsuits against the companies responsible for the contamination continue to pile up. [RELATED: […]
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