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What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming

What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming By Doug Gurian-Sherman on August 5, 2014 As you may have heard, about half a million people in the Toledo, Ohio area lost their municipal drinking water supply on Saturday because of possible microbial toxin contamination from Lake Erie. A combination of heavier spring rains, exacerbated by climate change, and runoff of phosphorus from fertilizer applied to crops is the likely cause. The good news is that farmers can adopt better ...[READ MORE]

Official Statements From Multipure And Berkey Water Filters Regarding West Virginia Chemical

Since the West Virginia chemical spill that have affected thousands of people's drinking water, I have been getting tons of phone calls and e-mails regarding this chemical and if  any of the filters I recommend can remove this toxin. The West Virginia Chemical from the spill has been identified as 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, (MCHM). Acording to Wikipedia,  "4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM, systematic name 4-methylcyclohexylmethanol) is an organic compound with the formula CH3C6H10CH2OH. ...[READ MORE]

Thousands In W. Virginia Without Water After Chemical Spill

Chemical spill leaves 300,000 West Virginians without water There's a state of emergency in West Virginia and the people there getting more desperate by the minute. The water that some 300,000 West Virginians usually depend on to slake their thirst, wash their bodies and brush their teeth is now good for only one thing - flushing their toilets, authorities told them Friday. 300,000 West Virginians told not to drink or bathe in water after chemical leak Their water supply has been potentially ...[READ MORE]

6 Easy Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The sky is falling! Well, kind of. Whether we like it or not, our world is changing. It’s getting warmer, and many say we (humans) are to blame for it. Our energy consumption increases every day – from our incessant need to drive everywhere, to our countless hours plugged in to various electronic devices. There are ways you can help reduce your carbon footprint and do your job in helping keep this world, and the living things that occupy it, around a little longer. Buy a laptop instead of a ...[READ MORE]

Potable Water In Developing Countries: Are We Doing Enough?

It is a sad fact that in the year 2013 there are still approximately 800 million people without access to clean potable water. Almost 3.5 million of us will die each year from water related diseases, with 99% of fatalities happening in developing and third-world countries. Despite countless UK & US government campaigns and numerous national charity initiatives, the issues do not seem to be getting any better as one in nine people still lack access to improved water sources. Diarrhea caused ...[READ MORE]

Unacceptable Levels – A film about chemicals in our bodies and how they got there

Over 80,000 chemicals flow through our system of commerce, and many are going straight into our bodies. Even our unborn children are affected. Due to this constant exposure, we have approximately 200 synthetic industrial chemicals interacting with our cells every single day. Until recently, modern science really didn’t understand what that could mean for all of us in the long run, but that is changing. Globally, disease rates are on the rise. Theories about the causes abound, yet the issues ...[READ MORE]

Fukushima In Freefall: Radioactive Water Filters Taken Offline

(NaturalNews) After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now calling for international help and has all but admitted Fukushima's radiation leaks are spiraling out of control. In addition to the leaking water storage units that are unleashing hundreds of tons of radioactive water each day, Tepco now says 50% of its contaminated water filtration capability has been taken offline due to corrosion. The result is that radiation leaks are escalating out of control and attempted ...[READ MORE]

Fracking In Florida!?

Floridians Alarmed As Industry Signals Desire To 'Frack' and Drill Populated Areas Written By: Sayer Ji, Founder - www.greenmedinfo.com In what is shaping up to be a move as potentially disastrous for the Collier family name as the Collier county environment, a May 2013 drilling permit application by Dan A. Hughes company describes their intent to drill a 13,900 foot deep exploratory well in close proximity to a relatively densely populated residential area known as Golden Gate. In ...[READ MORE]

EPA Files Complaint Against Timmonsville Over Sewage, Drinking Water Violations

EPA Files Complaint Against Timmonsville Over Sewage, Drinking Water Violations The U.S. Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), acting on behalf of the State of South Carolina, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina against the Town of Timmonsville, S.C., for wastewater and drinking water violations. The complaint requests that ...[READ MORE]

Life-Sustaining Liquid: The Importance Of Clean Drinking Water

Life-Sustaining Liquid: The Importance Of Clean Drinking Water In the developed world, we often take it for granted that a cool glass of refreshing water is available to us whenever we feel thirsty. However, in some parts of the world, this is not the case. In many villages in Africa and other developing parts of the world, access to water that is safe to drink is lacking. The people who live in these areas must either walk long distances to the nearest water source, or drink water from sources ...[READ MORE]