Public health

Salem water sees decrease in toxins, Wilsonville sees increase

Salem tap water could be safe for everyone after another day, said city officials Friday. There's no guarantee, because toxin…

6 years ago

Brain-damaging lead in tap water, hundreds of homes across Chicago

After city testing found high lead levels in the tap water in her Chicago home, Jenny Abrahamian decided to install…

7 years ago

Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows

Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department…

7 years ago

Flint Activist LeeAnne Walters Wins Major Environmental Prize

LeeAnne Walters, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was key in exposing the crisis of lead-laced water in Flint,…

7 years ago

Chicago Tap Water Tested Positive for Brain Damaging Lead

Water upgrades (Cheryl Corley/NPR) A severe amount of poisonous lead was located in the water of nearly 70% of Chicago…

7 years ago

Lead found in hundreds of Chicago homes’ tap water, report says

Click through for CNN video report: What is lead poisoning? 01:12 (CNN) Toxic lead was found in tap water drawn…

7 years ago

Drinking Water — World Health Organization

Key facts In 2015, 71% of the global population (5.2 billion people) used a safely managed drinking-water service – that…

7 years ago

Groundwater Monitoring Reveals Widespread Radioactivity at Duke Energy Coal Plants​

Data shows high levels of radioactivity at 11 of 18 plants Today is the deadline for coal-fired power plants to…

7 years ago

How Privatizing Water Systems Costs Taxpayers — & Endangers Them

Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…

7 years ago

Anxiety drugs are getting into the water we drink. This is how we could stop them

New research shows that pharmaceutical drugs are not being filtered out of our water systems. Image: Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic Wastewater treatment…

7 years ago