Category: PURE WATER

Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500 000 people

NEWS Emalahleni Municipality in Mpumalanga has four water treatment works, none of which meet national quality standards for potable water. It also has eight wastewater treatment works, all of which have been failing since 2020 to meet minimum compliance standards. Poor households have to use what little money they have from social grants to pay […]

Malfunctioning Water Tank Now Under Scrutiny as Root of NYCHA Arsenic Crisis

Weeks before public housing residents endured a week of uncertainty and fear over an arsenic scare at the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, trouble lurked within the basement of Building 11. A pump that was supposed to keep fresh water always flowing into a 20,000 gallon rooftop tank had stopped functioning properly […]

Successful Denver Water Lead Reduction Program seeks 12-Year extension

Roya Alkafaji, Manager, Healthy Communities and Lindsay McCormick, Senior Manager, Safer Chemicals Denver Water has one of the most successful lead service line (LSL) replacement programs in the country. Since it began the program in 2020, the utility has replaced nearly 14,000 LSLs—prioritizing lines to buildings serving vulnerable populations, such as child-care facilities. Denver Water […]

REMINDER: Application Period for Fall 2022 Drinking Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Infrastructure Project Funding Closes at 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 30

Raleigh Sep 22, 2022 The Division of Water Infrastructure’s application deadline for the Fall 2022 round of drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure project funding is Sept. 30, 2022, no later than 5:00 p.m. All applications must be completely submitted and received via the Division’s online submittal portal by 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2022. […]

Officials didn’t warn of contaminated water in this Ky. city– 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

Nearly three years ago, state officials found toxic “forever chemicals” polluting the drinking water in the city of South Shore at higher concentrations than anywhere else in Kentucky.   The state’s Energy and Environment Cabinet warned South Shore Mayor Cheryl Moore and began regularly testing the city’s water and sending her the results.   Life has otherwise […]

Report Wildfires Expanding Into Snow Zones Will Impact Water Supplies / Public News Service

Wildfires in Wyoming and across the West are creating bigger impacts on snowpack supplying farms, energy production and drinking water for millions of downstream users, according to a new study. Steven Fassnacht, professor of snow hydrology at Colorado State University and the report’s co-author, said the 2020 Mullen Fire in southern Wyoming and Cameron Peak […]

Office of Sustainability encourages mindfulness with water testing challenge

One might think water is water, but that is not always the case. True water snobs pride themselves on being able to pick out a “Dasani” water from a “Voss.” The Office of Sustainability’s favorite brand of water, however, is the one with the least waste, so they decided to put drinking water to the […]

Obtaining clean drinking water | News

Lafayette, La (KADN)- Several communities across Acadiana in the last few months have continued to experience a lack of access to clean drinking water. Lafayette Utilities System works daily to prevent this from happening. As of now, there are approximately 180 water sampling stations around the city of Lafayette that Lafayette Utilities System chemist monitors […]

NEW: Govt committed to equitable access to water, sanitation, health  

The Sunday Mail Online Reporter   GOVERNMENT is committed to ensure equitable and universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for all by 2030. Addressing the WASH national working committee on Tuesday, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development’s rural WASH officer Mr Taurai Maja said Government is currently funding […]

NSF supports UCI team investigating inequities in drinking water | UCI News

The National Science Foundation has awarded $350,000 to a team of researchers at UCI who are launching a new project to illuminate how governance failures cause inequities in drinking water and public health. Unequal access to safe water is a national concern, demonstrated most recently by tap water crises in New York and Mississippi. Treatment […]