Drinking Water

The Hindu
UN Recognizes Access to Clean Water as a Human Right
Environment News Service
Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the United Nations General ...
UN declares right to clean waterBBC News
Water is a human right, UN saysDeutsche Welle
Water is a basic human right: UNInternational Business Times
Execte News -Daily Star - Lebanon -The Hindu
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New product could remove common herbicide from drinking water
Minnesota Public Radio
Two University of Minnesota graduates have come up with a product to remove the common herbicide atrazine from drinking water. Corn farmers across the ...
U startup focused on atrazine techFinance and Commerce
U announces start-upMinnesota Daily (blog)

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CBC.ca
Kalamazoo County downplays danger to drinking water
WWMT
Muehlenbeck said on Thursday that he has seen no evidence of oil in the river by him, and even though his drinking water comes from a well, he's confident ...
Oil Spill Worse Than Carp, Daley SaysNBC Chicago
Daley: Michigan oil spill worse than Asian carpChicago Tribune (blog)
Michigan oil spill affects Kalamazoo, Calhoun County residents and their dogsExaminer.com
Battle Creek Enquirer -Chicagoist -Globe and Mail
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Oil slick may not foul drinking water, expert says
Detroit Free Press
The oil slick in western Michigan is a problem on the surface, but not necessarily a threat to drinking water supplies, which are drawn from ...

Metrowny.com
US Energy says levels of gas in local tap water are not harmful to health
Metrowny.com
... his tap water on fire on WIVB-TV July 14 and many local residents wondered, and even checked to see, if there was methane in their own drinking water. ...

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Health department urges residents to test wells for arsenic
Tampabay.com
CLEARWATER — North Pinellas residents with private drinking water wells should have their wells tested for arsenic, ...
Elevated arsenic levels found in some Pinellas private wellsTbo.com
Some private wells test positive for arsenicMiamiHerald.com

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PSU Cooperative Extension to hold drinking water seminars
Press & Sun-Bulletin
The Penn State Coopertive Extension has scheduled seminars in Towanda and Dimock on drinking water standards and how to understand testing reports for ...

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IRAN: Dangerous levels of nitrate in Tehran's drinking water reported
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Though most of the drinking water for Tehran typically flowed from the reservoirs of Karaj Amirkabir Dam, one hour west of Tehran, 30% of the water is now ...

The Hindu
Jilin Cuts Off City's Drinking Water After Chemical Spill, Daily Reports
Bloomberg
... city's main drinking source, because of flooding at about 10 am, before the water stoppage at about 1 pm, the newspaper cited local officials as saying. ...
Workers rush to retrieve 3000 chemical-filled barrels in NE China riverXinhua
Unsafe chemical swept into riverGlobal Times
Chemical barrels washed into river, water supply cut offAsiaOne
RTT News -RIA Novosti -Zee News
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Boston Globe
Pipe join from May water break is removed for test
WLNE-TV (ABC6)
The rupture in suburban Weston left residents of 30 towns and cities, including Boston, without safe drinking water for three days. ...
Workers find second half of missing coupling at center of water crisisBoston Globe
Elusive Coupling Dug Out Of Resting SpotWCVB-TV
Crews remove coupling involved in Mass. water main breakNECN

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MyFox Houston
Preserving Clean Water During Storms
MyFox Houston
HOUSTON - Everyone in the Houston area learned the importance of having enough drinking water when Hurricane Ike struck in 2008. ...

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Belleville cautions water drinkers
NorthJersey.com
"Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard," but this is "not an emergency," Belleville Township announced Tuesday on its website. ...

Circle of Blue WaterNews
US Senate bill to force fracking fluid disclosure
Reuters
They argue the practice should not be exempt from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Many energy companies have resisted releasing what they consider ...
Senate Energy Bill Draws New Opponents In Gas IndustryWall Street Journal
Hydraulic fracturing hot topic in TexasExaminer.com
Michigan's New Natural Gas Rush: Energy and Water in PlayCircle of Blue WaterNews
AlterNet -Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) -Texas Tribune
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Bruce hires WT to maintain its water lines, lift stations
Romeo Observer
... Washington Township will maintain the water mains, three lift stations and file all compliance forms pursuant to the state's Clean Drinking Water Act. ...

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Reuters India
UN declares access to clean water a human right
AFP
The non-binding text "declares the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of the ...
Why The United States Did Not Support "Water as a Human Right" ResolutionUN Dispatch
UN assembly asserts water rights, some disagreeReuters Africa
Why water is a human rightBusiness Daily Africa
Circle of Blue WaterNews -Radio New Zealand
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Charlotte Observer
FACTBOX-Risks to US shale gas production
Reuters
Some farmers say cattle have died after drinking water contaminated with drilling chemicals; others blame the gas industry for cattle born with mutations ...
Shale Report: PA considering new casing regulationsGreening of Oil
EPA hearing on gas drilling draws big crowdMcMurray Almanac
Fracing Really Isn't the ProblemExaminer.com
Pittsburgh Post Gazette -Charlotte Observer -Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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City Council Votes To Go Ahead With Recycled Water Demonstration Project
KPBS
“I remain to be convinced that this is a safe source of drinking water for San Diegans,” Faulconer said. “But I will move forward with the pilot project to ...
We Live in FearSan Diego Reader

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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Dueling ballot measures over Marin desalination
San Francisco Chronicle
Marin County voters will decide in November between two measures involving a proposal to turn 5 million gallons of saltwater a day into drinking water. ...
MMWD board sends two desalination measures to November's ballotContra Costa Times

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Activists urge state to use less bottled water
Boston Globe
They argued that relying on bottled water sets a bad example for residents and comes at the expense of support for public drinking water systems, ...
Campaign seeks Australia's most expensive bottled waterCourier Mail

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Reuters India
US hostage in Darfur says conditions desperate
Reuters Africa
... men in western Sudan more than two months ago said on Tuesday that food and drinking water were scarce and her living conditions had become desperate. ...
US kidnap woman describes Darfur 'nightmare'AFP

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