Contamination
Unearthed: The Fracking Facade
A video exposing a flawed claim often abused in the sales pitch for promoting shale gas development across the world:
“With a history of 60 years, after nearly a million wells drilled, there are no documented cases that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has lead to the contamination of groundwater.”
Five Things You Should Know About Fluoride in Your Drinking Water
Fluoridation has been a public policy for so long that most people simply take it for granted. However, increasingly, scientists and public health officials are questioning just why this nationwide fluoridation needs to take place and what the long-term consequences of this will be. Read below to find out five things you should know about the fluoride in your drinking water.
Solar-Powered Distiller: Turns Salt Water Into Drinking Water
There are so many things we inhabitants of the Western world take for granted and one of them is fresh clean drinking water. In the underdeveloped nations of the world, native women travel for miles to local rivers and transport clean water back to their villages in baskets on their heads. The lack of potable water is the cause of typhoid fever and other dreaded maladies stemming from environmental neglect and abject poverty.
Water Quality in a Drought
The Great California Drought: It’s been all over the news lately that California is getting into more and more trouble with the continuing drought and dwindling water supply. Not enough people are conserving it, crops need it and enforcing conservation is extremely difficult. While everyone is concerned about the amount of water being used, few people think about the quality of water being used.
future of drinking water
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
your water isn’t safe
Bottled Water? Really?
all tap water comes from sewage
Water Security
The Disappearing Male
The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.
America’s Most Endangered Rivers® 2013
| 1. Colorado River Outdated water management is threatening recreation, water supply, and wildlife habitat. |
2. Flint River Water supply for communities, farms, recreation, and wildlife are threatened by outdated water management. |
3. San Saba River The river’s flow for ranchers, citizens, and lakes might disappear from outdated water management. |
| 4. Little Plover River Outdated water management is putting fish habitat and water supply at risk. |
5. Catawba River Coal ash pollution is threatening drinking water and recreation. |
6. Boundary Waters Copper and nickel mining at putting recreation, drinking water, and wilderness at risk. |
| 7. Black Warrior River Coal mining will put drinking water quality and fish and wildlife habitat at risk. |
8. Rough & Ready and Baldface Creeks Nickel mining endangering pristine rivers, wilderness, botanical diversity and recreation. |
9. Kootenai River Open-pit coal mining is endangering water quality and survival of rare fish and wildlife. |
| 10. Niobrara River Improper sediment management is putting property, crops, and public safety at risk of flooding. |
Special Mention: Merced River Intentional flooding of this Wild & Scenic River would harm wildlife habitat and recreation. |
Sacred Spirit of Water
Water is a living organism, water is sacred, water is life, water is worth defending and protecting for those yet unborn. Rivers and lakes in Alberta don’t stop at provincial borders. These rivers and lakes flow throughout Canada and the United States, therefore everyone will be affected by the ominous bills which have become law.
The Story of Bottled Water
What is in Your Water?
USA Today exposes America’s Dirty Little Secret
Washington—Each and every year, more than 860 billion gallons of raw and partially treated sewage is dumped into America’s waters and most people don’t even know it. It’s enough sewage to cover a state the size of Pennsylvania ankle deep. A shocking story in USA Today exposed America’s Dirty little secret, among the findings:
Washington—Each and every year, more than 860 billion gallons of raw and partially treated sewage is dumped into America’s waters and most people don’t even know it. It’s enough sewage to cover a state the size of Pennsylvania ankle deep. A shocking story in USA Today exposed America’s Dirty little secret, among the findings:
Toxic Threats to Child Development
Nearly one in five (17%) children in the United States has been diagnosed with one or more developmental, learning or behavioral disability. There is a growing consensus that disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism are increasing in frequency. These disorders have widespread societal impacts, from health and education costs to the repercussions of criminal behavior. Research demonstrates that pervasive substances such as mercury, lead, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, and others, are toxic to the developing child’s brain (neurotoxic).
Matt Damon About The Water Crisis
Drugs in Drinking Water
We have all heard the saying ‘There is something in the water’ Well There IS.
Associated Press reported that over 41 million people are exposed to pharmaceutical drugs in TREATED drinking water.
And there is NO FEDERAL or STATE REGULATIONS ON WATER TREATMENT FOR DRUGS.
The Fluoride Deception
Pharmaceuticals in the Water?
A vast array of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
A River of Waste
The Sky Is Pink
