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Aug 11, 2020 · Nearly 165 million Americans rely on groundwater for drinking water, farmers use it for irrigation―37 percent of our total water usage is for agriculture—and industry needs it for manufacturing.
- Jon Heggie
- Houston, Texas
- Jackson, Mississippi
- South Texas / Rio Grande Valley
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Benton Harbor, Michigan
Officials are warning more than 2 million people in the Houston area to boil their water before using it to cook, bathe and drink after a power outage at a water purification plant caused low water pressure. On Twitter, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city believes the water is safe, but a boil order was issued as a precaution because of th...
Most of the city's 150,000 Jackson residents have been on a boil water notice since July 29 because the state health department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems. Many were left without any water at all after a major pump at the city’s main treatment facility was damaged in late August. The water crisis was a result of decades-...
The Rio Grande Valley is facing pressure from an ongoing drought and a looming water shortage, so much so that the threat pushed two county judgesto issue disaster declarations in August. But it's not just the Rio Grande Valley. In early August, Gov. Greg Abbott declared and renewedthe disaster status of several counties over the drought. Reservoir...
In November 2021, jet fuel leaked from a storage facility operated by the Navy, contaminating the drinking water of local Honolulu residents and sickening hundreds of families. The Hawaii Department of Health received almost 500 complaints reporting petroleum odors coming from residential tap water supplied by the Navy water system, alongside repor...
The New Mexico city of roughly 13,000 people has been relying on reservoirsthat had less than 50 days worth of stored water when Mayor Louie Trujillo declared the emergency in July. The city's water supply in the Bradner Reservoir had been tainted with large amounts of fire-related debris and ash following the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire. The lar...
Baltimore residents have been urged to boil tap waterafter E. coli was discovered in several West Baltimore locations, affecting more than 1,500 people. While the health department continues to perform leak detection and leak checks in the region, residents continue to haul water bottles and jugs home, with no insight into how long they'll be witho...
Elevated levels of lead have been detected in the Benton Harbor's water system since at least 2018, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council petition filed in September to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of local advocacy groups and residents. The replacement of lead-tainted service lines began under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2...
- Kiara Alfonseca
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Apr 19, 2023 · As pollution, engineering, population growth and climate change pose challenges to freshwater quality and quantity in America, the safety and amount of water in parts of the U.S. is in question.
Jun 22, 2021 · Using data from the American Community Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency, we show there are 489,836 households lacking complete plumbing, 1,165 community water systems in Safe...
- J. Tom Mueller, Stephen Gasteyer
- 2021
Jun 22, 2021 · In 2020, 1,165 community water systems were not of adequate quality, and more than 21,000 facilities that discharged directly into US waters posed a severe level of environmental threat.
Sep 9, 2022 · Beyond its current regulatory and other roles, what more could the federal government do to secure safer drinking water for people in the U.S.?
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Mar 3, 2019 · Over 2 billion people already lack access to safe drinking water at home, and by 2025 over half of the world’s population will reside in water-stressed areas. These numbers will increase significantly if climate change and population growth follow or exceed predicted trajectories.
