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Water Safety Issues Threaten PCB Cleanup

Three Hudson River towns are threatening legal action that could further delay a dredging project to remove contaminants, unless the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) satisfactorily addresses their concerns.

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Is Bottled Water Really Purified?

Bottled water is supposed to be pure, an image carefully promoted by the bottled water industry, but a two-year study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory finds them filled with chemical contaminants, making them not much different from ordinary tap water....

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Is It Safe to Swim Now, Doc?

Having a bacterial infection is one thing, and we usually take it in stride. But being infected with flesh-eating bacteria is quite another thing, and, for having it, a man almost lost his stride....

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Needed: Rapid Testing of Beach Water Quality

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released Tuesday, August 7, its 17th beach water monitoring report covering water quality testing on 3,500 beaches for the whole of 2006....

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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....

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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....

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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 sex hormones, cholesterol fighters, anti-epilepsy drugs, mood stabilizers and other drugs....

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