On AlterNet: water contamination

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Navajo Community Groups Appeal To Highest Court To Stop Uranium Contamination of Drinking Water

Environment News ServiceSeptember 20, 2010.

For the first time the NRC has licensed a uranium mining operation in a community drinking water supply, in spite of never having restored such an aquifer to pre-mining condition.

U.S. Navy Finally Agrees to Study Health Effects of 30 Years of Potentially Deadly Water Contamination at a Marine Corps Base

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. February 22, 2010.

Documents recently reviewed by the press revealed the contamination at Camp Lejeune was far more extensive and deadly than previously assumed.

Are You Drinking Unsafe Water? Corporations Have Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 16, 2009.

Forty percent of the nation’s community water systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act at least once, exposing over 23 million people to potential danger.

Every Story About Chemicals in Drinking Water Is a Gift to the Bottled Water Industry

Elizabeth Royte, AlterNet. August 26, 2009.

Instead, we must fix our municipal systems and, most important of all, better protect our watersheds from chemical and other pollution.

Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Water Contaminated With Weed Killer

Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. August 24, 2009.

One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.

Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than Officials Said

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. August 5, 2009.

Methane released from gas drilling has caused a fatal explosion and water contamination across seven counties in Pennsylvania.

New York Times Looks Like Industry Shill in Latest Story on Gas Drilling

Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. June 25, 2009.

The paper published a story about the virtues of natural gas drilling that read like an industry power point presentation.

Congress May Close Huge Drilling Industry Loophole that Threatens Clean Drinking Water

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. May 26, 2009.

Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning gas drilling industry.

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. April 30, 2009.

When houses are exploding because of gas seeping into well water, you know you have a serious problem.

Thanks to Natural Gas Drilling, PA's Water Is Flammable

Staff, Clean Water Action AlterNet: Water. April 30, 2009.

Watch this video to see a person light drinking water on fire as it comes out of the tap.

Sedatives and Sex Hormones in Our Water Supply

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 25, 2008.

An AP journalist who helped lead an frightening investigative report considers the dangers posed to the country's drinking water.

Is Your Drinking Water Contaminated? Bottled Water Isn't the Solution

Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch AlterNet: Water. March 11, 2008.

Contaminants in drinking water are a national problem that need a national solution.