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Healthy Water, Healthy Kids

By Jennie Saxe Like most children, my kids interact with water in many ways, from the moment they wake up to the moment their little heads hit their pillows. Every day, my boys use water for drinking, bathing, and brushing their teeth. The clothes they wear and the dishes they eat from get washed in water as well. They also love swimming, splashing in puddles, and hiking near (and sometimes falling into) Crum Creek. Because water interacts with nearly every part of our children’s lives, ...[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]

Official Says Complaining About Tap Water is Act of Terrorism

Official Says Complaining About Tap Water is Act of Terrorism If you dare to complain about the poor quality of your tap water, you better expect a visit from Homeland Security. Because after all, as a water official has now verified on record, complaining about your tap water can be an act of terrorism. Concerned about the high levels of arsenic in your water, or perhaps the known levels of radioactive contamination? Well you must be a terrorist, according to the Tennessee Department of ...[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]

Drinking Dirty Water – Is America’s Water Safety In Jeopardy?

Drinking Dirty Water - Is America’s Water Safety In Jeopardy? Civilization is only as strong as its water supply. Communities and cities, as well as their economic stability, can quickly and easily be bruised, if not toppled, by the unchecked outbreak of waterborne microbes such as viruses and bacteria. Subtler, long-term mayhem may be wrought upon the bodies of our citizenry by the preponderance of chemicals, hormones and pharmaceutical by-products thought to lurk in the water supplies ...[READ MORE]

Bottled Water Sales are Down!

Bottled Water Sales are Dropping! This is great news! More consumers are saving every penny, and choosing to drink tap water instead of expensive, wasteful, bottled water. What does this mean? We are winning the fight against bottled water! We have a long way to go, but this is definitely a great start! Food and Water Watch is reporting a 12.6 percent drop in sales! Nestle is working harder to gain back consumer confidence. Watch out for more deceitful advertising. Hanging on for Pure Life Why ...[READ MORE]

Atrazine Weed Killer Contaminates Drinking Water

RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A new Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report found that spikes in the water levels of atrazine, a common herbicide banned throughout Europe (but still legal here in the U.S.) could pose a public health risk. The hormone-disrupting chemical is used extensively in corn and sugarcane farming, but research has linked environmentally relevant levels of the herbicide with suppressed immune systems, thyroid problems, aggression, cancer, birth defects, learning ...[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]

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]