Public health

EPA: Water at Puerto Rico Superfund site is fit for consumption

Puerto Ricans given water from hazardous site 00:51 (CNN) Water drawn from wells at a hazardous waste site in hurricane-hit…

7 years ago

Video shows workers at Hanford illegally dumping radioactive water

Photo © Berliner Verlag / Steinach / Global Look Press Investigators are looking into the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington…

7 years ago

Water board reports highlighted health risk before hepatitis outbreak

San Diego officials were informed repeatedly of the dangers of disease-carrying runoff from homeless encampments into area waterways, as far…

7 years ago

Report Spotlights Nitrate Contamination in Drinking Water Across the USA

Photo: iStock/Charlie Bishop Scientists have known for decades that drinking water contaminated by fertilizer nitrates can pose a threat to…

7 years ago

Private water wells in Texas test positive for contamination after Harvey

Nearly 60 percent of samples from 50 private water wells in Harris County tested positive for the bacteria sometimes found…

7 years ago

Puerto Rico is becoming a textbook example of how waterborne disease outbreaks spread

The disaster in Puerto Rico wrought by hurricane Maria is still unraveling one month after it hit. Most of the…

7 years ago

ACLU Wants Flint Kids Screened for Impact of Lead

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan want a federal judge to order state and Flint education officials…

7 years ago

4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know

Photo: Laura Ungar, USA TODAY RANGER, Texas — The leaders of this former oil boomtown never gave 2-year-old Adam Walton…

7 years ago

Puerto Ricans given drinking water from a hazardous-waste site

Photo: Puerto Ricans given water from hazardous site. Dorado, Puerto Rico (CNN) Jose Luis Rodriguez waited in line Friday to…

7 years ago

Gov. Brown Signs Bill Requiring California Water Districts to Test School Water for Lead

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday requiring water districts to test school water for lead in California. NBC 7…

7 years ago