drinking water pollution News
-
‘The water situation is much worse than expected’, finds Waterlanders TV series
A Dutch documentary has set out to raise awareness of global challenges such as floods, extreme droughts and water pollution. Called Waterlanders, the five-part series takes viewers on a journey around the world, from Mexico, to Kenya, Jordan, India and right through to Greenland. The programme is hosted and produced by former event organiser Jeannette den Boer and TV creator Stefan Coppers. ...
-
How the Supreme Court broke Clean Water Act and why Congress must fix it
For decades, the Clean Water Act has broadly protected America’s lakes, rivers, streams, and drinking water sources from unregulated pollution and destruction, rescuing them from the dire straits they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But because of a concerted effort by polluters and developers, and muddied rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, up to 60 percent (at least 15,000 ...
-
EPA test results show mine spill unleashed highly toxic stew
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that surface-water testing revealed very high levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium and other heavy metals as a sickly-yellow plume of mine waste flowed through Colorado. These metals far exceeded government exposure limits for aquatic life and humans in the hours after the August 5 spill, which sent 3 million gallons of wastewater through ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you