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A Century of California Water Wars
California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s water. The battle for California’s water pitted ranchers against water barons and still echoes today. Just before midnight on March 7, ...
US Regulations on Contaminants
How contaminants in drinking water are regulated by the EPA and states. Everyone should have clean drinking water. But millions of Americans are exposed to harmful contaminants in their tap water. Des...
Guymon’s Drinking Water Could Kill Infants
Guymon warns city’s drinking water could kill infants due to high levels of nitrate. The City of Guymon, Oklahoma, US, is warning parents to not give tap water to their infants, or use it to mak...
Sign on: EPA Against Plastic Pollution
Plastic Pollution Coalition: It’s time for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take a proactive approach to protect communities impacted by unsafe drinking water. The EPA must guide wate...
The Ethics Of Water Rights
The Ethics Of Water Rights: Balancing Human Needs With Environmental Conservation. Water and wastewater professionals need to know about rights just as much as landowners, especially regarding environ...
US Supreme Court: Drink More Shit-Water
The Supreme Court Says You Should Drink More Shit-Water. San Francisco is dumping human sewage into the Pacific Ocean, and that’s just fine. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Tuesda...
Kentucky Lawmakers’ Water Pollution Plan
Silas House, environmental groups rally against Kentucky lawmakers’ water pollution plan. Environmental advocates, including author Silas House, gathered to urge lawmakers not to pass a bill allowing ...
Worries About Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee discharges ‘killing’ St. Lucie Estuary, Florida Oceanographic Society director says. Construction of reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee hope to alleviate discharges. Mark P...
Trump Puts Paonia Water In Limbo
Paonia Board — Federal Funding Paused for Now, Perhaps Indefinitely. Like other municipalities in the Delta county, Colorado, Paonia has multimillion-dollar infrastructure projects in the hopper. The ...
