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Drought-driven water pollution hits California Latino communities hard

Drought-driven drinking water contamination is disproportionately affecting members of California’s Latino communities, a new study has found. Among the pollutants…

4 months ago

EPA narrows in on PFAS regulations, Tucson hopes for federal priority

Alisa Reznick/KJZZ — Kaulana Breitenbach, water quality specialist for the Marana Water Department, shows a sample of the activated charcoal…

9 months ago

Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study

Microplastics and other pieces of rubbish in the sand in Lanzarote, Spain. Photograph: Susanne Fritzsche/Alamy Scientists express concern over health impacts,…

9 months ago

Drinking water of millions of Americans contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

Water of about 26 million is contaminated as new data offers the most robust look into exactly which communities are…

1 year ago

Filtering toxic hexavalent chromium from water

Photo credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL Hexavalent chromium continues to contaminate water sources around the world, with one US company…

5 years ago