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If there is one “holy grail” secret to keeping your body healthy, it’s drinking plenty of water. The U.S. Geological Survey notes that water makes up as much as 60 percent of our bodies ...
Richmond officials on Monday said that employees at the city’s water treatment plant on Wednesday had accidentally discharged excess fluoride into the drinking water at the water treatment plant ...
The water it provides to its 80,000 customers is free of these chemicals. (Photos by the author.) In Brief: The presence of PFAS chemicals in drinking water is a major public health concern.
“Nobody wants PFAS in their drinking water and it’s important for everyone to voice their concern to their elected officials that rolling back drinking water protections is harmful.
A California winery was served with a cease-and-desist letter after inspectors found that “excessive rates” of wastewater produced by the winery threatened Fresno drinking water due to high ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging everyone to stop using certain bathroom and kitchen faucets after testing revealed they can leach lead into ...
A boil-water advisory is in effect for six towns across the South Shore after the Abington Rockland Joint Water Works found E. coli and total coliform bacteria in drinking water samples.
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were enacted under the Biden administration and designed ...
CDC named fluoridation of drinking water one of 10 great public health interventions of the 20th century because of the dramatic decline in cavities since community water fluoridation started in ...
(AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the ...
Earlier this month, Miami-Dade County commissioners voted to override a veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and move forward with plans to remove fluoride from the county’s drinking water.
seemingly fueled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said drinking fluoridated water has no “systemic advantage.” ...