AWS - Water News

They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water

5/21/2019

Water is a currency in California, and the low-income farmworkers who pick the Central Valley’s crops know it better than anyone. They labor in the region’s endless orchards, made possible by sophisticated irrigation systems, but at home their faucets spew toxic water tainted by arsenic and fertilizer chemicals.

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Amid 19-Year Drought, States Sign Deal to Conserve Colorado River Water

5/19/2019

Seven Western states have agreed on a plan to manage the Colorado River amid a 19-year drought, voluntarily cutting their water use to prevent the federal government from imposing a mandatory squeeze on the supply.

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Australia's Cocos Islands Home to More Than 414 Million Pieces of Plastic Pollution, Including 977,000 Shoes

5/16/2019

Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands is home to more than 400 million pieces of plastic pollution like hundreds of thousands of shoes and toothbrushes.

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Plastic pollution: Flip-flop tide engulfs 'paradise' island

5/16/2019

Scientists estimated that the beaches of Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands are strewn with around 414 million pieces of plastic pollution.

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MORE CHILDREN KILLED BY UNSAFE WATER, THAN BULLETS, SAYS UNICEF CHIEF

5/14/2019

A lack of safe water, is far deadlier for children than war in more than a dozen conflict-affected countries, the UN Children 's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday, in a report launched to coincide with World Water Day, marked on 22 March.

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Company capitalizes on Florida humidity, converting it to drinkable water

5/5/2019

Bare store shelves often mean a big storm is coming. They can also mean drinking water is more valuable than ever. A company in South Florida says the answer is in the air.

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Drinking California tap water over lifetime could increase cancer risk, study says

5/1/2019

A new study claims drinking tap water in California over the course of a lifetime could increase the risk of cancer.

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India’s water crisis is already here. Climate change will compound it.

4/24/2019

Severe droughts have drained rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers across vast parts of India in recent years, pushing the nation’s leaky, polluted water systems to the brink.

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Concern about quality of drinking water grows over past two years, survey shows

4/23/2019

Americans are clearly concerned about their overall quality of life being affected by the environment, according to the 2019 WQA Consumer Opinion Study, and their concern has grown since the last survey in 2017.

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Ocean-Clogging Microplastics Also Pollute the Air, Study Finds

4/18/2019

Researchers in France said this week that they found thousands and thousands of microplastic particles raining down on a secluded spot in the Pyrenees, 75 miles from the nearest city.

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