Wheeling water to tackle inequality
Water is life. Yet water inequality appears to be on the rise, with over 771 million people globally experiencing a daily struggle to get access to clean drinking water. Women and children are particularly affected, as women across the world cumulatively spend 200 million hours a day collecting water. The global water crisis is predicted to worsen, with 1.6 […]
EPA Announces Funding for Disadvantaged Communities to Address PFAS in Drinking Water, Synthesizing Approaches to PFAS and Environmental Justice | Fox Rothschild LLP
Alongside USEPA’s recent issuance of new Health Advisory Levels, or HALs, for certain PFAS chemicals (namely, PFOA, PFOS, PFBS, and GenX), the Agency also announced that, as part of the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government effort to address PFAS, USEPA is making available $1 billion in grant funding in Fiscal Year 2022 (and a total of $5 billion for […]
E. coli found in drinking water – myRepublica
PABITRA SUNAR KATHMANDU, June 28: As per the study carried out by the National Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD), the cholera-causing bacterium E. coli has contaminated drinking water sources in Kathmandu. Dr Chuman Lal Das, Chief of EDCDC, states that among different water sources of the valley evaluated by the department, the bacteria were […]
Nearly 70 percent water samples in Valley contaminated
Nearly 70 percent of drinking water samples in Kathmandu Valley have been found to have been contaminated with E coli and faecal coliform, according to a study carried out by the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division. The division started collecting and examining water samples after cholera and diarrhoea cases were confirmed in different parts of […]
In Wake of Poseidon Desal Plant’s Denial, South Coast Water Looks to Fill Hole in County’s Water Portfolio
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Guest Attacks Disneyland For Water Prices In The Heat
Disneyland Resort might be The Happiest Place On Earth, but it’s no secret that everything is a bit more expensive at the Disney Parks. Guests have been complaining about the rising ticket, food, merchandise, and Resort costs for years, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic began and Disney implemented the Genie+/Lightning Lane system at Disneyland and […]
Deadly Floods in Assam Leave Lakhs Without Drinking Water in Worst-hit Silchar
One month of continuous rain in Assam has devastated the state affecting over 25 lakh people in the state in 2,894 villages in 27 districts. More than 121 people have lost their lives. In Cachar, more than 3 lakh people have been devastated by this flood. The whole city of Silchar was submerged in water. […]
Water woes grip hills, remote areas of Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh Residents in remote areas of Bangladesh have started an intense struggle for potable water because of discriminatory budget allocation for those areas and an unrelenting destruction of the ecology — especially in hilly areas. Just 5.44% of the Annual Development Program was allocated for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector for fiscal […]
How EPA targeting ‘forever chemicals’ in water will affect New York
They’re called “forever chemicals” because it’s just so hard to get rid of them. Collectively known as PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances), they are found in everyday kitchen products like food packaging and nonstick frying pans, as well as carpets, water-proof jackets and the foam used to fight fires. Once they degrade, they contaminate the […]
Gurdung settlement faces acute water shortages every monsoon
Saili Tamang from Gurdung settlement in Dhunibesi Municipality gets up early in the morning and descends to the Padheri stream to bring home water. It takes nearly one hour for the 67-year-old to reach the stream and another one-and-a-half hours to return home with the water vessel. “It is very difficult for me to carry […]