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Water
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As Trump Works to Gut EPA, Report Finds One Quarter of Country Drinks Substandard Water
The Trump administration has proposed slashing funding for drinking water programs.
There’s a New Generation of Water Pollutants in Your Medicine Cabinet
Where do our personal care products go after we use them?
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Study Finds Fracking Is Strongly Related to Increased Infant Mortality
A new study in Pennsylvania shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies.
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“Superman Is Not Coming”: Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
“It's hundreds of Flints,” says Erin Brockovich: US water supplies have become repositories for industrial waste.
Clean Water Is a Basic Human Right, and We Can and Should Make It Affordable to Everyone
As we invest in our public water systems — and we must — we need to distribute costs equitably.
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EPA Considers Gutting Regulations on Lead Contamination
East Chicago residents have been waiting weeks for Pruitt to respond to their emergency petition for federal aid.
#WageLove: Water Activists Build a Global Movement
Civil rights lawyer Alice Jennings is pushing the courts to see clean water in Detroit and Flint as a human rights issue.
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Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge Pipeline Is One Permit Closer to Reality as Groups Plan Continued Resistance
“We are not protesters, we are water protectors.”
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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
In 2016, chemicals detected in the state's drinking water prompted a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
This Invention Lets Rural Hondurans Clean Their Water — and Own the Treatment Plants
What's at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need.