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Removing Atrazine From Surface Water Just Got Easier

September 18, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Removing Atrazine From Surface Water Just Got Easier

 

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, September 18, 2017 (ENS) – An international team of scientists has found an effective way of removing low concentrations of the toxic weed killer Atrazine [...]

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Poor Families Scared of Water Scarcity

September 1, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Poor Families Scared of Water Scarcity

 

WASHINGTON, DC, September 1, 2017 (ENS) – Countries will have to spend US$150 billion per year to reach the Sustainable Development Goal of access to safely managed water [...]

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Air/Climate

Glacial Retreat Causes 1st Modern Case of River Piracy

April 18, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on Glacial Retreat Causes 1st Modern Case of River Piracy

 

TACOMA, Washington, April 18, 2017 (ENS) – The retreat of a massive Canadian glacier has triggered the first known case of “river piracy” in modern times – the [...]

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Clean Water: It’s a Matter of Money

April 14, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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World Water Day Appreciates Precious Wastewater

March 22, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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

March 1, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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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At Risk

Fresh Storms Could Reactivate Oroville Dam Crisis

February 19, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 3, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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

February 2, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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

January 30, 2017 News Editor Comments Off on 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

November 20, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Energy

141 Water Protectors Arrested at Dakota Pipeline Protest

October 28, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Louisiana Governor Races to Restore Eroding Coast

October 26, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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

September 9, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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

September 1, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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

August 12, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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

May 31, 2016 Sunny Comments Off on 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

April 10, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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

April 10, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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 [...]

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Land Use/Forests

UN: Water, Forests and Jobs All Interdependent

March 22, 2016 News Editor Comments Off on 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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