Tag: water

In the 1870s the colonizing American government rounded up “Indians” and put them in boarding schools and forced them to learn English....

Nestlé plans to take 1.1 million gallons of water per day from Ginnie Springs, which sits in the Santa Fe River in...

Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by...

World Water Week kicked off this week in the shadow of a frightening reality that nearly one-fourth of the world's population is living...

More than five years after Flint’s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its...

“Trump’s EPA cannot change important water quality protections at the whim of industry interests. It’s not only disruptive to Washington’s environmental efforts over the past two years, it’s a clear violation of the Clean Water Act.

Water is a human right and shouldn't be controlled by corporations whose primary motivation is profit.

Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water.

"The people of Flint deserve answers. Hopefully this investigation will yield them. And there needs to be accountability for those involved in creating this crisis, including former Governor Snyder."

High levels of lead leached from the old pipes, poisoning a generation of Flint's children, and bacteria responsible for an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease killed more than a dozen residents.