5 Ways to Improve Water Quality in Schools
Water quality is a key component to a healthy school. Here are 5 ways to improve water quality and provide better access for students and staff. Northampton, MA –News Direct– Delos Delos: Boy with water bottle. By REGINA VAICEKONYTE Ensuring students, teachers and staff have access to good quality water, especially clean drinking water, is […]
Liberia to Benefit US$50M in Support to Water and Sanitation
Jerry Gaye The Liberian delegation at the ongoing 9th World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal has disclosed that the country will get US$50 million out of the 1.8 billion gifted by the United States Government to twenty-one countries across the world. About 15 countries in Africa are expected to get their share of the goodwill […]
Brighton and Hove News » Water fountains installed to cut down on plastic and litter
Council leader Phélim Mac Cafferty Six new drinking water fountains are being installed in popular areas of the city in a bid to cut plastic use and litter. Two fountains are already in use at Hove Lagoon and on Hove seafront and four more are being placed at Churchill Square, in front of the Palace […]
Africa: Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels By 2025 – Experts
Nairobi, Kenya — Joan Waweru was among villagers on their regular trek to the river to fetch water when they discovered a neighbour’s dead body, believed to have committed suicide by drowning in river Kamiti. She was thirteen years old and recalls how even after the traumatizing incident, the village, and many others along river […]
Questions loom over Moulton water quality amid complaints, fired official
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Supplying water from Moulton City Lake has the upside of avoiding any contaminants from the Tennessee River, but the downside has consistently been poor-tasting drinking water. “A lot of the customers when they come in and order water, they completely hate the taste of it,” Bobby Rai’s Sports Grill employee […]
People In Edmonton Say Their Drinking Water Smells Or Tastes Like ‘A Wave Pool’ & Here’s Why
People in Edmonton are complaining that their drinking water smells and tastes “extra-chlorine-y” at the moment and there’s actually a pretty good explanation why. Users on Twitter said it smells “like the wave pool” at the West Edmonton Mall but, according to experts, it’s caused by the time of year. “Is the water in Edmonton […]
Solar-powered UV water treatment could improve health outcomes in rural Tanzania: U of T researcher
Karlye Wong, a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, is working with the Geita and Nyang’hwale District Councils in northern Tanzania to develop an affordable, low-maintenance, off-grid solution for delivering clean drinking water that has been treated with ultraviolet (UV) light. In the areas where Wong is working, health-care facilities […]
5 Miles Of Woodbridge Water Mains Will Be Replaced
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Starting this March, Middlesex Water Company will begin a 7.9 million-dollar project to upgrade the drinking water infrastructure in Woodbridge Township. As part of the project, which the company calls RENEW 2022, Middlesex Water Company intends to replace 24,100 linear feet of water mains that run under Woodbridge streets and homes, as […]
Water treatment for PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
RIDGEWOOD — The village has been approved for a $2.8 million federal Environmental Protection Agency grant to pay costs associated with removing so-called forever chemicals from the water supply. The grant will offset a $3.5 million renovation of the village’s Ravine Treatment Plant to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, found in the local drinking water. The municipally owned […]
Empowering communities through access to clean, safe water
Some of the participants of the site visit for the Partnership for Water and Economic Resilience (P4Water) project at Barangay Ilijan in Bago City, Negros Occidental yesterday, March 22. (Erwin P. Nicavera Photo) Officials and representatives of partner-organizations with some of the host-residents on the sidelines of the project visit that coincides with the World Water […]