clean water

Top Five Environmental Events of 2011 – EcoWatch

Top Five Environmental Events of 2011 This year certainly had its big eco-news events. From natural disasters that led to one of the worst nuclear meltdowns on record to an unprecedented assault on environmental protections and regulations in Congress, 2011 felt like we took 10 steps backward on the protection of human health and the environment. Personally, I’m still reeling from 2010 events, including the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Supreme Court decision giving a green ...[READ MORE]

Triple Divide – A documentary Film by The Public Herald

TRIPLE DIVIDE  is a new documentary film that lights the shadows about America's quest for energy, where Paradise Found meets the visible hand of natural gas development. Potter County, Pa. (focus of the film) is home to a geological phenomenon called the Triple Divide, one of five widely-recognized in the United States where water drains into three different basins. The headwaters of this Triple Divide are ecological sanctuaries for all things living deep in Appalachia, and provide drinking ...[READ MORE]

A World Without Water – Full Length Documentary

As less and less water is available, you have yet another problem being added and that is the problem of privatization. There are companies now saying ‘why don’t we bottle it, mine it, divert it, sell it, commodify it.’ That greed of privatization, I believe, will be much worse than climate change and everything else that has left us with the water crisis. The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision’s timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting ...[READ MORE]

Matt Damon – Claus For a Cause – Water.Org

Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. Yet today, nearly one billion people – about one in eight – lack access to clean water. More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet. There has been significant public attention paid to the issue of water scarcity lately, and for good reason. Although water is a renewable resource, it is also a finite one. Only 2.53 percent of earth’s water is fresh, and some ...[READ MORE]

How We Give Ourselves Cancer – Bob Wright American Anti-Cancer Institute

How do we get cancer? It's one of the biggest health questions people face. Bob Wright, director of the American Anti-Cancer Institute, says the answer is simple. He says there are a couple of simple reasons why people get cancer. Health Videos - We Give Cancer to Ourselves  

EPA Admits "Fracking may cause groundwater pollution"

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution. The draft finding could have significant implications while states try to determine how to regulate the process. Environmentalists characterized the report as a significant development though it met immediate criticism from the oil and gas ...[READ MORE]

Earthjustice – Dont Let Polluters Undo Environmental Protections

TAKE ACTION! Don’t Let Polluters Undo Environmental Protections This Holiday Season This holiday season, leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are planning to hide attacks on vital protections for our air, water, wildlife, and public lands in tax legislation and must-pass spending bills—but the U.S. Senate can stop them! These attacks will mean fewer protections for our lungs, our drinking waters and our children. As we all prepare for the holiday season, the Senate must prepare to stop ...[READ MORE]

Dieldrin Insecticide Contamination in Florida Gets Attention of Erin Brockovich

Florida residents to convene at town hall Oct. 24 Erin Brockovich will be on hand Monday, Oct. 24, for a town hall meeting with residents of Deland, Fla., to answer questions about insecticide-tainted drinking water affecting a number of DeLand and Miami-Dade homes. Brockovich consults for the nationally recognized environmental torts law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. The New York-based giant is sending Brockovich to Deland because of her expertise in exposing injustice and her prowess for ...[READ MORE]

Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Threatens Drinking Water Across The U.S.

Will Tar Sands Pipeline Threaten Groundwater? Proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry diluted bitumen, or “dilbit.” More than a million gallons of dilbit leaked into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in July 2010. Photograph courtesy Michigan Department of Environmental Quality   Mason Inman for National Geographic News Published September 19, 2011 This story is part of a special National Geographic News series on global water issues. For two weeks in late August and early ...[READ MORE]

Trichloroethylene (TCE) In Your Drinking Water?

Why you should look for TCE in your drinking water -by Britt Mittemeijer Our local paper today carried an article about the suffering TCE (trichloroethylene) in the drinking water supply has caused many inhabitants of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. TCE is a known human cancer-causing chemical (EPA).  Fuel leaks and other sources of pollution can and do create a toxic cocktail that finds its way into drinking water supplies.  The Camp Lejeune area had to deal with this water contamination for ...[READ MORE]