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SAN JUAN MAYOR SAYS TRUMP LIVES IN A 'FANTASY WORLD'
The Puerto Rican government said that more than 80 percent of the island remains without electricity and more than 30 percent do not have safe drinking water... READ MORE›
MOSTLY WITHOUT POWER AND CLEAN WATER, PUERTO RICO STRUGGLING WITH MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Raw sewage is pouring into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. People without running water bathe and wash their... READ MORE›
A DESPERATE, DAILY SEARCH FOR WATER IN PUERTO RICO
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the challenge of finding enough water to drink and cook with remains enormous... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP DEDICATES GOLF TROPHY TO HURRICANE VICTIMS AMID BACKLASH OVER RELIEF EFFORTS
We have done a great job with the almost impossible situation in Puerto Rico... READ MORE›
HURRICANE MARIA PUSHES PUERTO RICO'S STRUGGLING HOSPITALS TO CRISIS POINT
Before the hurricanes hit, Puerto Rico had a health systen which the Urban Institute described as financially unstable ... READ MORE›
FLOOD-FUELLED SEWAGE SPILLS A NEW NIGHTMARE IN IRMA-BATTERED PARTS OF FLORIDA
We still have a leaky system, said Justin Bloom, executive director of Suncoast Waterkeeper, which sued St. Petersburg and Gulfport last year over repeated sewage discharges... READ MORE›
161,000 AT RISK FROM MICROSCOPIC PARASITE IN DRINKING WATER, WATCHDOGS WARN
The EPA's review of drinking water quality for 2016 said the number of supplies at risk from cryptosporidium reduced from 37 to 25... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Drinking Water
PLASTIC FIBRES FOUND IN TAP WATER AROUND THE WORLD, STUDY REVEALS
Microplastic contamination has been found in tap water in countries around the world, leading to calls from scientists for urgent research on the implications for health... READ MORE›
IN FLINT, MICH., THERE'S SO MUCH LEAD IN CHILDREN'S BLOOD THAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY IS DECLARED
The use of the Flint River was supposed to be temporary, set to end in 2016 after a pipeline to Lake Huron's Karegnondi Water Authority is finished... READ MORE›
4 MILLION AMERICANS COULD BE DRINKING TOXIC WATER AND WOULD NEVER KNOW
An EPA assessment from 2013 estimates infrastructure needs for small water systems will total 64.5 billion over 20 years... READ MORE›
GIRL 3 BRAIN DAMAGED AT BIRTH RECEIVES HSE APOLOGY... COURTS
Deforestation in the Amazon River basin, hundreds of miles away, may also be adding to Sao Paulo's water crisis... READ MORE›
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, RESIDENTS WARNED TO AVOID TAP WATER
On Wednesday night long queues formed at grocery stores of shoppers stocking up on bottled water... READ MORE›
SYRIA'S ONGOING CRISIS: HOW YOU CAN HELP
Follow the links to find out more about how you can help people in Syria... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 33 US CITIES USED WATER TESTING 'CHEATS' OVER LEAD CONCERNS
Forty-three cities provided information, and 33 of these used distortions in their water testing in the past decade... READ MORE›
ONCE-DREAMY HAITIAN BEACH TOWN PICKS UP THE PIECES AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW
At least several hundred Haitians died in the storm, a number of them in Port Salut... READ MORE›
HOW TO COPE WITH THE END OF THE WORLD
Spreading astonishingly quickly through our modern world of dense cities and international airliners, we'd already lost the fight in a matter of weeks... READ MORE›
CHOLERA SPREADS IN HAITI IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE MATTHEW
The people of Haiti face a new terror, just days after Hurricane Matthew blasted the Caribbean nation cholera... READ MORE›
LEAD TAINTS DRINKING WATER IN HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS, DAY CARES ACROSS USA
Typically, schools are very responsive, said Roger Crouse, Maine's drinking water program director... READ MORE›
LANCASHIRE HOMES FORCED TO BOIL WATER DUE TO CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BUG
Routine tests by United Utilities found traces of cryptosporidium at Franklaw water treatment works outside Preston... READ MORE›
US AUTHORITIES DISTORTING TESTS TO DOWNPLAY LEAD CONTENT OF WATER
Lambrinidou's Virginia Tech colleague Marc Edwards was one of the first scientists to highlight the risks posed to Flint residents by their drinking water... READ MORE›
'LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB': CHOLERA AND DESTRUCTION IN HAITI AFTER HURRICANE KILLS 1,000
The United Nations appealed for 119 million US on Monday to bring life-saving assistance to 750,000 people in southwest Haiti... READ MORE›
FLINT RESIDENTS WERE POISONED. NOW, THEY'RE BEING BILLED FOR IT
The people in Flint should not have to pay for water for at least a decade, Hanna-Attisha said... READ MORE›
OBAMA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN FLINT WATER CRISIS
-- President Obama on Saturday declared a federal emergency in Flint, meaning federal financial aid will be available to assist with the drinking water crisis... READ MORE›
BEYOND FLINT: EXCESSIVE LEAD LEVELS FOUND IN ALMOST 2,000 WATER SYSTEMS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES
Most Americans get their drinking water from a fragmented network of about 155,000 different water systems serving everything from big cities to individual businesses and school buildings... READ MORE›
WORLD'S BIGGEST FLOATING SOLAR FARM POWERS UP OUTSIDE LONDON
Thames Water said that plans for a super-sewer under London would not affect the solar power project... READ MORE›
'WE WOKE UP IN A DESERT' THE WATER CRISIS TAKING HOLD ACROSS EGYPT
Egypt, once celebrated as the gift of the Nile, is in the grips of a serious water crisis... READ MORE›
FLINT'S WATER CRISIS REVEALS GOVERNMENT FAILURES AT EVERY LEVEL
The state, however, did not ensure that corrosion-control additives were part of the new water supply... READ MORE›
FLINT WATER CRISIS: FIVE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issued a report in February blaming systemic racism going back decades for the problems that caused the water crisis in Flint... READ MORE›
'TRAGEDY' INSIDE MOSUL AS FOOD RUNS OUT AND THE BATTLE AGAINST ISIS DRAGS ON
Instead, most people heeded government advice to stay in their homes as security forces advanced... READ MORE›
IS THE WORLD RUNNING OUT OF FRESH WATER?
Over half of Israel's drinking water now comes from desalination... READ MORE›
MILLIONS EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS LEAD LEVELS IN US DRINKING WATER, REPORT FINDS
New report says Flint water crisis is not an anomaly, as analysis reveals 5,363 water systems - providing drinking water to 18 million - breached federal laws... READ MORE›
'I COULD NOT LET THIS BEAST WIN'
As they battled to get as much water to the fire crews as they could, firefighters were working to protect the water treatment plant itself... READ MORE›
EPA OFFICIAL RESIGNS OVER FLINT WATER CRISIS
He asked the Michigan state legislature this week to approve 28 million to assist Flint and said there would be additional funding requests... READ MORE›
WATER UTILITIES SERVING AMERICAN CITIES USE TESTS THAT DOWNPLAY CONTAMINATION
There is no estimate of how many of the nation's 155,000 water utilities flush lines before testing for lead... READ MORE›
NEW YORK VILLAGE'S TRAIL OF CANCER LEADS TO TAP-WATER PROBE
When the two men suggested testing the village water supply, part-time Mayor David Borge at first refused, citing state guidelines... READ MORE›
AFTER TAINTED-WATER CRISIS, RESIDENTS HIT WITH RISING WATER BILLS
State of mistrust Flint switched its water supply back to the Detroit system in October 2015... READ MORE›
A PARCHED WORLD A DRYER HOSE AND AN OAKVILLE TEEN WITH A VISION
Calvin Rieder, 19, has been trying to solve the world's water problems since Grade 7. Lost cause? Far from it... READ MORE›