Tag: Drinking water
Biden’s infrastructure plan targets lead pipes that threaten public health across...
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system...
Nearly 60 million Americans don’t drink their tap water, research suggests...
Asher Rosinger, Penn State
Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that...
Wildfires can poison drinking water – here’s how communities can be...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University and Caitlin R. Proctor, Purdue University
In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction.
The 2018 Camp Fire...
Coronavirus spotlights the link between clean water and health
David Feldman, University of California, Irvine
As the world confronts the coronavirus pandemic, experts say that a key way to minimize the odds of getting...
How to address America’s lead crisis and provide safe drinking water...
Qi Bing, University of California, Irvine and Maura C. Allaire, University of California, Irvine
Since the Flint drinking water crisis erupted five years ago, Americans...
Drilling deeper wells is a band-aid solution to US groundwater woes
Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara and Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara
With memories of the wettest U.S. spring on record still...
The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that’s not...
Joan Rose, Michigan State University
Most Americans take clean drinking water for granted as a convenience of modern life. The United States has one of...
EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a...
Laurel Schaider, Harvard University
After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
