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Search results for "Safe Drinking Water Act" ...
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Toxic Waters
With the aid of more than 500 Freedom of Information requests, reporter Charles Duhigg uncovered major problems with the nation's Clean Water Act. He found that out of the many "chemical plants" and "large manufacturers" who broke water pollution laws over the past several years, few were punished or even fined. He also found that millions of U.S. residents "have been exposed" to water that could be damaging to their health.
Tags: Clean Water Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; E.P.A.; toxic waste; atrazine; pollution
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The Price of Potability
Governing reports on the difficulties municipalities across the nation are having compling with EPA standards for testing and treating drinking water. The costs of meeting new standards is overwhelming even large cities and putting smaller water providers out of business. Conversely, safe drinking water is something that Americans need to be able to rely on.
Tags: drinking water; Environmental Protection Agency; Safe Drinking Water Act
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America's Little (Well...) Actually Kind of Serious (Um...) Maybe It's Worse Than We Thought (Hmmm...) Pretty Damn Big (Gulp!) Arsenic Problem
Bill Donahue takes a trip to Fallon, Nev., a town of 8,300 that has the highest level of arsenic in its drinking water of any town its size or larger in the United States. The town's municipal reserves contain arsenic levels of 100 parts per billion, more than twice the current EPA limits. "It sounds minuscule, but that 100 ppb is toxic enough...to pose a 2 percent cancer risk above the national norm to anyone who spends 30 years drinking it." Fallon is one of many towns that the Environmental Protection Agency hopes to bring into compliance. But Fallon officials and many residents are cynical that high arsenic levels are serious health threats, and they are not enthused about the $7 million to $10 million price tag of a filtration plant that would bring them into compliance.
Tags: arsenic; George W. Bush; Fallon; Nevada; cancer risk; American Water Works Association; American Water Works Research Foundation; Office of Drinking Water; Safe Drinking Water Act
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How safe is your water? (Series)
USA Today reporters examine the nation's water supply and find grave problems with tap water safety. Water pollutants and carcinogens have also been detected in various sites in the U.S. Several stats and graphs illustrating the dilemmas of drinking water provided.
Tags: Safe Drinking Water Act; Water contaminants; Water systems; Ecology; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Trouble at the Waterworks: Too dirty to drink, too costly to clean
The Progressive looks at the 30,000 small water systems nationwide that serve fewer than 3,300 customers each; finds most of these small, rural water systems cannot afford to purchase water-treatment equipment needed for their water to meet new federal regulations; suggests small water systems will either have to significantly raise their rates or ignore the new regulations enacted in 1986 as amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Tags: Water system; Myersville; water treatment facilities; waste water management; sewer systems; EPA