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Levee construction underway in Mississippi River to keep salt water out of drinking water amid record low water levels

October 20, 2022 -

The problem is the result of an ongoing drought paired with the rising sea level along the coast. At the mouth of the Mississippi River, these issues are coming to a head as low flow enables saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico to push its way up the river and put the drinking water supply in jeopardy.

When the river’s flow drops beneath a rate of 300,000 cubic feet per second, it no longer has the force needed to keep salt water at bay. The U.S. Geological Survey ...

Climate crazies now pushing recycled SEWAGE as drinking water

September 13, 2022 - drinking water comes from," he said, adding that people should treat water "as a precious resource" and not as free goods. Part of the solution, Bevan added, will be to reprocess the water that results from sewage treatment and turn it back into drinking water that is perfectly safe and healthy.

However, this "toilet-to-tap" water is not something many people will want to drink. "Green" advocates are nevertheless promoting this "environmentally friendly" ...

EPA doing “bare minimum” to address toxic PFAS pollutants in drinking water

July 17, 2022 - drinking water samples showed higher PFAS levels when tested using the TOF method. It also showed higher concentrations of the forever chemicals – as much as 24 times greater.

"The undercount leaves regulators with an incomplete picture of the extent of PFAS contamination and reveals how millions of people may be facing an unknown health risk in their drinking water," the Guardian reported.

Water samples from Portsmouth, New Hampshire showed a concentration ...

California regulators nix water desalination plant that would provide clean drinking water to citizens… are they TRYING to destroy the state?

May 17, 2022 - drinking water a day," Reuters reported.

"That is enough for 400,000 people, but the plant would use a process that staff experts at the commission said would devastate marine life and expose the plant to future risk of sea level rise while producing expensive water too costly for low-income consumers."Will California eventually run out of water completely?

Environmentalists who have been fighting against the project for years burst into celebration following ...

Dozens of new contaminants found in drinking water, including forever chemicals, pesticides and radioactive materials

November 08, 2021 -

This shocking revelation was made public by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental advocacy organization, in its November update. This is the first time the organization has updated its database since it began recording data regarding drinking water health in the U.S. in 2019. (Related: Chemicals found in tap water could be responsible for more than 100,000 cases of cancer.)

Many of the substances were first identified in the water supply as ...

Severe drought in South America wreaking havoc on shipping, energy, fishing and drinking water supplies

October 27, 2021 -

Paraguay is being especially hard hit. The landlocked nation of seven million inhabitants depends on the Parana and Paraguay Rivers, which have been drying up significantly in the most extreme drought seen there since the 1940s.

The pair of rivers power this country’s grain, cattle and fruit industries. The country, which is roughly the size of California, gets drinking water from the rivers, which also serve as ways of connecting Paraguay to the world around ...

“Forever chemicals” from almost 42,000 sources threaten to contaminate drinking water

October 19, 2021 - drinking water samples from Miami, Philadelphia, New Orleans and New York City in 2020.

According to EWG, no level above 1 ppt of PFAS is safe. Andrews has called for the use of filters and the phase-out of these forever chemicals entirely. "We need to stop non-essential uses of PFAS and use filters to reduce these compounds from our water," he says.

EWG also calls on the EPA to bolster its efforts to limit the release of PFAS in the environment. "It is urgent ...

Students at Washington, D.C. schools left without clean drinking water due to COVID-19 policies

October 11, 2021 -

A teacher at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, Bethany Rosera, told the Washington Free Beacon that although the school district had provided the school with water jugs, they ran out quickly and left students and teachers without any clean drinking water.

She said: "We ran out of water [on Tuesday] and our admin drove twice to Costco to fill up their own car with water in the middle of the day so we could get through the end of the day and have some for [Wednesday] ...