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Water for Dimock: Emergency Aid Needed for Pennsylvania Fracking Victims! ACTION
Health & Wellness  (tags: ecosystems, health, fracking, habitat destruction, animals, humans, drinking water, water, PA )

Nancy
- 108 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Water for Dimock: Emergency aid needed for Pennsylvania fracking victims! It wasn't a flood or natural disaster that left 11 families in Dimock, PA without drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was created single-handedly by the Cabot Oil and Gas
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After Radiation Spike, Tests Show Tap Water Safe for Babies in Tokyo
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, world, Japan, drinking water, government, humans, news, protection )

Cal
- 429 days ago - cnn.com
New tests Thursday showed that radioactive iodine in Tokyo's tap water has dropped to levels considered safe for babies -- just hours after authorities announced plans to distribute bottled water to tens of thousands of parents around the Japanese metropo
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Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
Health & Wellness  (tags: drinking water, worldwide hippies, health, environment, protection, warning, study )

Joseph
- 481 days ago - worldwidehippies.com
Unfortunately, our government's failures to address the array of drinking water quality concerns are largely indiscriminate; for we have not been sufficiently protected from possible contamination by either the Environmental Protection Agency,
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Speak Out to Protect California's Drinking Water From Cancer-Causing Hexavalent Chromium ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, drinking water, California, protection )

Cher
- 484 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Tell the OEHHA, before the Feb. 15 deadline, to finalize the Public Health Goal early this year, so that a legally enforceable standard can be set to protect public health
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US Says Too Much Fluoride Causing Splotchy Teeth
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, fluoride, splotchy teeth, drinking water, health, toothpaste, mouthwash )

Anna
- 504 days ago - news.yahoo.com
In a remarkable turnabout, federal health officials say many Americans are now getting too much fluoride because of its presence not just in drinking water but in toothpaste, mouthwash and other products, and it's causing splotches on children's teeth and
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Paonia Doctor's Study Warns Hydraulic Fracturing Could Cause Adverse Health Effects
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, hydro-fracking, gas, pollution, chemicals, methane, natural gas drilling, water pollution, drinking water )

Kelly
- 615 days ago - realaspen.com
"Natural Gas Operations From a Public Health Perspective," co-authored by Paonia's Dr. Theo Colborn, who runs the Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TDEX) there, calls for the full disclosure of all chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process called
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Coal Poisons U.S. Health. Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: Coal, air, drinking water, cancer )

Tarequl
- 617 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
Earthjustice and Physicians for Social Responsibility today released a major report showing that coal ash poisons in the air and drinking water supplies can cause cancer, organ failure and developmental problems. Children and adults who live near ash...
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1/2 of All China's Water Is Too Polluted to Drink
Health & Wellness  (tags: Drinking Water, Pollution )

Ben
- 669 days ago - treehugger.com
Even given our general knowledge of China's longstanding problems with pollution, this news is staggering: A full one half of China's water has been rendered undrinkable from pollution. As if that wasn't shocking enough, 1/4 is entirely unusable...
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Beetle-Inspired Dew Bank Concept Draws Water From Desert Air
Health & Wellness  (tags: Drinking Water, Human Rights )

Ben
- 689 days ago - treehugger.com
Finding water where there isn't any is inspiration for a whole range of water-gathering concept designs. But it seems one of the best places to start for coming up with a winning concept is to mimic the plants and animals that can survive desert...
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Tell Congress to Close the "Halliburton Loophole" ! TAKE ACTION !
Health & Wellness  (tags: safe water act, loophole, haliburton, drinking water, protection, health, water, safe )

Cher
- 997 days ago - change.org
Although the Safe Drinking Water Act regulates most forms of underground injection in order to protect drinking water sources, in 2005 Congress passed the "Halliburton Loophole," which exempts hydraulic fracturing from the law's reach (the exemption was
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Pharmaceuticals Found in Drinking Water of 24 Major Metro Areas
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, research, protection, drinking water, water, humans, health, medicine, interesting, treatment, warning )

Hanna
- 1538 days ago - mlive.com
At least one pharmaceutical was detected in tests of treated drinking water supplies for 24 major metropolitan areas, according to an Associated Press survey of 62 major water providers and data obtained from independent researchers.
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