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Forebodings of Doom

How much is a 1%/year decline ? Enough that if i had a hundred of anything, i would have fifty in seventy years. What are these anythings ? Phytoplankton in the ocean, who produce half the oxygen we breathe are declining at 1% a year. They die because the oceans change in a warming world. [...]
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Coming Home

Millions of gallon of oil spilled. Fishing industry ruined. Lives lost. Gulf of Mexico ? Not quite. Try Nigeria. “In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe [...]
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Wake-up Call On Water Crisis

A growing number of people, inclouding Bill McKibben of 350.org, are raising awareness that the reality of climate change is being seen in drinking water supplies around the world. “Within a decade there are likely to be 150 million restive climate migrants roaming the globe. They won’t go quietly, wherever they go. Many of them [...]
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Membrane Breakthrough

Philadelphia, PA — There have been many recent breakthroughs in membrane technology. Researchers at the University of Texas and Virginia Tech University have been working on desalination technology. The research team has discovered a way to use a chlorine-tolerant membrane that would significantly reduce the cost of desalination making fresh water more readily available for [...]
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Think Hard! Drink Hard!

Soft Water & Soft Minds Since we’ve been studying drinking water for quite some time, I found it very interesting when several people asked me to write something on “water softeners.” It seems somewhere along the line consumers have confused water purification with water softening. When it comes to drinking water, I believe water softeners [...]
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Addicted To Drinking Water

An Associated Press investigation found that U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways. These drugs often find their way to drinking water sources. The report said, “Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used [...]
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EPA Seeks Advice on Perchlorate in Drinking Water – Agency Issues Interim Health Advisory

Release date: 01/08/2009 Contact Information: Enesta Jones, (202) 564-4355/7873/ jones.enesta@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – Jan. 8, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking advice from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) before making a final determination on whether to issue a national regulation for perchlorate in drinking water. The agency also is issuing an interim [...]
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