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Are There Drugs in Drinking Water?
Without you knowing it, drugs may be entering your system everyday with the water you drink.The Associated Press recently released the results of a five-month investigation which showed that drinking water supplied to more than 41 million Americans contains a cocktail of pharmaceuticals ranging from antibiotics, birth control drugs and ...

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Sewage Water Purified To Safer Water
As populations in US cities continue to grow, city planners have been hard put to increase supplies of drinking water, which face challenges from persistent drought and water shortages. It has not been easy getting projects approved. They are costly, and opponents raise formidable health issues and concerns. In October, San Diego’s city council ...

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Bay Area Oil Spill Widens
As the 58,000-gallon oil spill continued to spread across wider areas of San Francisco Bay and going up Marin County, the governor of California declared a state of emergency for the Bay Area Friday. The state of emergency authorizes the state office in charge of oil spills to use money from an industry-funded program set up to pay ...

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Georgians Save Water As Drought Worsens
The drought in the Southeast has worsened as the hurricane season continues to be much drier than normal. Almost one-third of the region has now been declared to be experiencing “exceptional” drought. This is the most severe classification in the categories for drought. The whole state of Georgia has mobilized to cut water ...

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Rock Hill Chlorine Leak Plugged
A device that was supposed to mix chlorine dioxide into water in a water filtration plant failed, triggering an alarm at 4:30am Monday and causing the evacuation of about 1,500 people residing near the plant in Rock Hill, S.C. The problem was resolved towards noon and residents were allowed to return by around 1:20pm. ...

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Rare Amoeba Infection Getting More Common?
A rare infection that causes death in 95 percent of patients has claimed another victim, a 14-year-old teenager in Arizona, bringing this year’s total fatalities to 6 young people. An amoeba, called Naegleria fowleri, causes the fatal disease called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). ... Some Safety Tips ...

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Rare Infection Due To Amoeba In Water
A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized in Austin, Texas last Wednesday, Aug. 15. An 11-year-old boy got the same infection and was killed in Orlando, Florida last week. They were both infected by the same microbe: the amoeba known scientifically as Naegleria fowleri. They got the microbes from swimming in freshwater ponds. ...

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After The Flood, The Cleanup
The flood waters may be gone but the water-borne dangers remain. This is the basic thing you should remember if your house has been flooded and you face the taxing and dangerous task of cleaning up.It is best to assume that floodwater is contaminated water. The clean water from the rain or the lake could have ...

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Is Your Water Safe To Drink?
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), over 90 percent of water from public water systems is safe to drink. But what about the water you drink? Here are some ways to find out. Water suppliers must deliver to their customers annual drinking water quality reports (or consumer confidence reports). These reports will tell consumers what contaminants have been detected in their drinking water, how these ...

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Water Down Dehydration
Dehydration is a deadly but silent danger. Dehydration occurs when you lose more fluid than you take in and your body doesn't have enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions. If lost fluid remains unreplenished, you may suffer serious consequences. Serious? Deadly actually. One danger is heat injury that can be caused by inadequate fluid intake combined with vigorous exercise and heavy perspiration can ...

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Surviving in a Flood
Storms June 16th through June 18th, following rains, and the swollen Brazos River have left northern Texas flooded. Eleven casualties have been reported and two people are still missing. President Bush ordered federal aid to 6 counties and Governor Rick Perry allowed state assistance to 37 counties. Floods can be unexpected, tremendously difficult to deal with, and lead to high casualties. This article in Safety Issues is devoted to safety in floods. ... Creating a barricade of sand bags ...

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Quality water brings you good health
What is Energy Water? What are it's functions? Adding 1/10 of the Energy Water, even inferior alcohols become mellow and savory. You don't get drunk easily from them. Cooking rice with the Energy Water can bring good flavor. And the rice doesn't go bad-in-acid easily. Drinking the Energy Water with an empty stomach or while the ...

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Do You Know What's In Your Drinking Water?
Water quality is a concern to all of us today, no matter where we live. Fortunately, consumers who obtain water from a public or private utility are able to access free, updated information about their local water quality through an annual water quality report called a Consumer Confidence Report (CCR), required by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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How To Disinfect Water In Emergency
Boiling water is the most effective way to make water bacterially safe to drink. Vigorous boiling for about a minute will kill any disease causing microorganisms in the water. The flat taste of boiled water can be alleviated by pouring the water back and forth between two clean containers...

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36 States Face Perchlorate Contamination
An emerging threat of uncertain dimensions looms in this working-class suburb, where a chemical used in rocket fuel and defense manufacturing has befouled nearly half the drinking water supply. But Rialto is just one of many communities...

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