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The number of U.S. communities confirmed to be contaminated with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate. The latest update of this interactive map shows PFAS pollution in public and private water systems.
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Levels listed are for the range of the total of all PFAS...
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WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency’s so-called...
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Today, the family of compounds including Teflon, commonly...
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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...
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Mar 2, 2019 · Access maps, graphs, and tables for data on use of hundreds of pesticide compounds. The Nation's rivers and streams are a priceless resource, but pollution from urban and agricultural areas pose a threat to our water quality.
Oct 21, 2020 · According to the EPA, water pollution from industrial facilities is responsible for polluting water quality in more than 10,000 miles of rivers and more than 200,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide (environmentamerica.org).
Jun 24, 2020 · In much of America’s farm country, nitrate contamination of drinking water, largely caused by polluted runoff from crop fields, poses a serious health risk – and the problem is getting worse, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of data from 10 states.
Feb 6, 2024 · Parts of North America are poised to become “hotspots of water scarcity” within decades, partly because pollutants will make some water sources harder to use, scientists warned on Tuesday,...
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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.
