INTERESTING LINKS
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City of Santa Fe Water Quality Report
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Quality Report
US Environmental Protection Agency Annual Drinking Water Reports For New Mexico
US Environmental Protection Agency Annual Drinking Water Reports (All States)
US Environmental Protection Agency List of Contaminants & Their Maximum Contaminant Level (MCLS)
World Health Organization Chemical Hazards in Drinking Water
IN THE NEWS
USING ACTIVATED CARBON FILTRATION
ST. PAUL, MN — Point-of-use (POU) activated carbon filtration devices are being recommended as an interim tap water treatment method for residents in 15 Minnesota communities who are concerned about potential contamination from chemicals that had been used to make firefighting foam.
IS BOTTLED WATER GOOD FOR YOU?
The plastic that bottled water comes in is not that good for you or the environment.
DANGERS OF CHLORINE IN DRINKING AND SHOWER WATER
Chlorine is a toxic chemical that has been used to disinfect drinking water supplies for nearly 100 years. It is economical and kills many bacteria including those which cause typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. Unfortunately, it is also a poison that has many adverse affects on the human body. Chlorine reacts with naturally occurring substances, such as decomposing plant and animal materials, normally present in the water to create trihalomethanes (THMs). These THMs trigger free radical production in the body, are highly carcinogenic, and cause cellular damage.
DRUGS SHOW UP IN DRINKING WATER
A vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
WHAT ARE THE HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ALUMINUM?
Aluminum has historically been considered to be relatively non-toxic in healthy individuals, who can tolerate oral daily doses of as much as 7.2 grams of aluminum without any apparent harmful effects. However, there is now abundant evidence that aluminum may cause adverse effects on the nervous system.
PLASTIC BOTTLES PILE UP AS MOUNTAINS OF WASTE
The biggest growth in bottled beverages isn't beer or soft drinks or juices. It's tasteless, colorless and sugarless water.
HEAT CAUSES CHEMICAL TO LEACH FROM PLASTIC
A new study may provide a clearer picture of how a controversial chemical called bisphenol A leaches out of plastics.
IN THE WEST, A WATER FIGHT OVER QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY
The search for a type of natural gas called coal bed methane has come to this part of the world in a big way. The gas is found in subterranean coal, and companies are pumping water out of the coal and stripping the gas mixed with it. Once the gas is out, the huge volumes of water become waste in a region that gets less than 12 inches of rain a year.
NAS REPORT ON RADON IN DRINKING WATER
A report released September 15, 1998, by the National Academy of Sciences is the most comprehensive accumulation of scientific data on the public health risks of radon in drinking water. The report, released September 15, 1998, was required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. An NAS report (BEIR VI) issued earlier this year confirmed that radon is a serious public health threat.
MONOCHLORAMINE TREATMENT NOT AS EFFECTIVE IN PROTECTING DRINKING WATER
An extensive comparison of two common disinfectants used by municipal water systems suggest that traditional chlorination may be more effective than treatment with monochloramine.
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, BUT GUILT BY THE BOTTLEFUL
On a recent family vacation in Cape Cod, Jenny Pollack, 40, a novelist and public relations associate from Brooklyn, did something she knew she would come to regret. She did it on the spur of the moment. She did it because she felt desperate.
A BATTLE BETWEEN THE BOTTLE AND THE FAUCET
Those eight daily glasses of water you're supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 - about 49 cents a year - if you take it from a New York City tap. Or, city officials suggest, you could spend 2,900 times as much, roughly $1,400 yearly, by drinking bottled water. For the extra money, they say, you get the added responsibility for piling on to the nation's waste heap and encouraging more of the industrial emissions that are heating up the planet.
INDOOR POOLS MAY POSE DANGER FOR YOUNG LUNGS
Could indoor pools be contributing to the increase in asthma among children? The idea has been around for a while, but new research that compared the number of pools in different parts of Europe with the incidence of the disease has found that this may well be the case.
