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Clean Water: It’s a Matter of Money
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 14, 2017 (ENS) – Clean, accessible drinking water is essential for life, and the United Nations says there is enough fresh water on the planet [...]
Water
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World Water Day Appreciates Precious Wastewater
DURBAN, South Africa, March 22, 2017 (ENS) – On this, World Water Day, a water-scarce world is looking to treated wastewater to help ease increasingly severe water shortages. [...]
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Trump Orders ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule Changed
WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2017 (ENS) – The federal rule protecting the navigable waters of the United States will be reviewed for “consistency” with the policy of the Trump [...]
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Fresh Storms Could Reactivate Oroville Dam Crisis
OROVILLE, California, February 19, 2017 (ENS) – The emergency at California’s Oroville Dam appears to be over for the moment, although during the next few days severe weather [...]
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Republican Congress Scraps Stream Protection Rule
WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2017 (ENS) – The Senate voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a measure to kill the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule, a [...]
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Wetlands Protected Worldwide to Reduce Disaster Risks
GLAND, Switzerland, February 2, 2017 (ENS) – Ten new Wetlands of International Importance in five countries have been designated to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2017, observed every year [...]
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Senators Ask EPA Help for Carcinogen in Long Island Water
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2017 (ENS) – U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, Friday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]
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Police Crack Down on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters
MANDAN, North Dakota, November 20, 2016 (ENS) – North Dakota police and Morton County sheriffs are dealing tonight with what they are calling “an ongoing riot” in connection [...]
Energy
141 Water Protectors Arrested at Dakota Pipeline Protest
MANDAN, North Dakota, October 28, 2016 (ENS) – Law enforcement officials in riot gear arrested 141 people at a demonstration on private land against construction of the Dakota [...]
Land Use/Forests
Louisiana Governor Races to Restore Eroding Coast
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, October 26, 2016 (ENS) – Warning that time has run out for repairing Louisiana’s eroding coastline, Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, this week challenged [...]
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Ohio Superfund Site to Get $18.75 Million Cleanup
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, September 9, 2016 (ENS) – Faced with state and federal charges, Rutgers Organics Corporation has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Nease Chemical Superfund Site [...]
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Global Partnership Aims to Save Lost Water
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 1, 2016 – The World Bank and the International Water Association declared their intentions at World Water Week today to establish a global partnership to [...]
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Toxic Chemicals Found in Drinking Water of 33 States
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 12, 2016 (ENS) – Public drinking water supplies for six million people in 33 states have tested higher than federal safety levels for a class [...]
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Canada, U.S. Warn of Eight Chemicals in Great Lakes
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, May 31, 2016 – Canada and the United States have identified eight substances in the water of the Great Lakes as chemicals of mutual concern [...]
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U.S. Working Group Fights Toxic Algae
WASHINGTON, DC, April 10, 2016 (ENS) – In-depth scientific research and broad-based communications are both needed to get control of harmful algal blooms and low-oxygen conditions called hypoxia [...]
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Satellite Data Helps Detect Harmful Algal Blooms
WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2016 (ENS) – Freshwater polluted by harmful algal blooms costs the United States at least $64 million every year, by government estimates.
Now four [...]
Land Use/Forests
UN: Water, Forests and Jobs All Interdependent
ROME, Italy, March 22, 2016 (ENS) – Nearly half of the world’s workers are employed in water-related sectors, while at the same time, the water security of eight [...]
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Replacement of Flint’s Lead Water Pipes Underway
FLINT, Michigan, February 21, 2016 (ENS) – Work on replacing high-risk lead service lines in Flint is under way as state and city leaders focus on removing pipes [...]
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Resignations, Lawsuit Flow From Flint Water Crisis
FLINT, Michigan, February 1, 2016 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional administrator responsible for the City of Flint has resigned, effective today, over her handling of [...]
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Michigan Governor in Hot Water Over Flint Water Crisis
LANSING, Michigan, January 15, 2016 (ENS) – Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, Thursday asked President Barack Obama to declare both an emergency and an expedited major disaster [...]