A total of 67 leading grassroots organizations focused on citizen and environmental issues today released a joint letter to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) disapproving of the group's willingness to be coopted by industry interests on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") for shale gas. Available online at ...
NEW DELHI, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Safe Water Network announced today the launch of its innovative Tablet-based water and health education campaign designed to build awareness of and demand for safe water in rural communities. In one of the first applications of this technology in such a setting, the campaign uses multiple regional ...
PR NewswireThree agencies are teaming up to offer up to $7.5 million in competitive grants to protect key agricultural, scenic and natural resource areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. The pilot program aims to preserve and enhance the natural, economic and social value of rural lands as the region’s population continues to ...
Business WireThe largest drinking water purification plant in Europe to feature GE’s (NYSE: GE) ZeeWeed* 500 advanced water treatment technology is under construction in Ravenna, Italy. Located on the east coast of Italy, close to the Adriatic Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea, this popular tourist destination needed a way to ensure increased water ...
General ElectricNew draft rules for fracking on public lands, released by the federal Bureau of Land Management today, would leave drinking water supplies for millions of Americans, as well as millions of acres of wild lands, at risk, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. The rules need to be strengthened in a number of ways in order to protect ...
Natural Resources Defense CouncilThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, has ordered two gas stations to close their underground injection wells to protect drinking water on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington. In separate settlements, the gas stations in Wapato and White Swan will pay $13,140 and $11,991 in federal penalties for violations of the Safe ...
US EPA - Environmental Protection AgencyIndustrial-grade fluoride chemicals added to US public water supplies contain arsenic that the EPA classifies as a human carcinogen. Switching to low-arsenic pharmaceutical-grade fluoride will save society $1 billion to $14 billion annually, according to research published inEnvironmental Science & Policy, led by former EPA senior ...
NSF International, The Public Health and Safety CompanyAs Drinking Water Week concludes, the American Water Works Association joins water professionals across North America in urging consumers to evaluate how they currently value, use and access water, and how to protect it into the future. North America’s water systems are critical to maintaining public health, economic vitality, fire ...
American Water Works Association (AWWA)As Drinking Water Week continues, the American Water Works Association joins water professionals across North America in helping consumers learn more about how their water is monitored. In the US the Environmental Protection Agency protects drinking water quality through the administration of the Safe Drinking Water Act; for Canadians it’s ...
High levels of hazardous chemicals were found in garden hoses for the second year in a row. Researchers at the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center found phthalates and the toxic chemical BPA in the water of a new hose that had been sitting outside in the sun for just two days. Findings include BPA levels of 0.34 to 0.91 ppm in the hose water, a level ...
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