LA Times:
Proposed goal of 0.06 part per billion could force costly treatment on providers that get water from the heavy-metal-contaminated San Fernando Valley aquifer, including L.A., Burbank and Glendale. (Read More)
LA Times:
Children sit in unventilated tents without fans, drinking water or even nearby toilets after months of fighting and a campaign by the Taliban to destroy school buildings. (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Science Fair:
If climate change wasn’t enough to worry about, lack of water may well be a bigger problem over the next 50 years. Already one out of six people lacks access to safe drinking water, a total of 1.1 billion, while...
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washingtonpost.com - In The Loop:
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, concern grew among government officials and utilities that the nation's drinking water systems could be vulnerable to toxins. Regan Murray, a statistician at the Environmental (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Metro:
Montgomery County should reconsider a proposed $85 million bus depot and delay approval of 1,600 new houses near the fragile Ten Mile Creek watershed as it looks for better ways to protect the source for the region's drinking (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Metro:
A scientific journal said it found no evidence that an author gave the District's water utility control of his 2007 research paper, which mistakenly included the claim that high levels of lead in the city's drinking water had (Read More)
SmartMoney.com - Investing:
It might sound premature to worry about rising prices when inflation and demand for cars, copper and nearly everything else are at their lowest levels in years. Yet a small but growing number of investment pros are betting in (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
The June 11 editorial "Mountaintop Letdown" proved to be dangerously shortsighted and morally troubling. The Appalachian Mountains were created over millions of years, and it is not sensible to destroy them for the small amou (Read More)
Reuters Video: Top News:
May 28 - Cyclone Aila has displaced millions of people in India and Bangladesh, only a fraction of whom have access to food and drinking water.
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