Today is World Water Day. The availability of clean potable water is diminishing around the globe. In fact, the Water Resources Group says that without more efficiencies put in place, by 2030 the demand for water worldwide will exceed availability by 40%. Competition for water around the world may fuel instability in the next decade, … Read more
Nitrate contamination in drinking water poses a health risk for one tenth of rural Californians, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California- Davis. Released during National Groundwater Awareness Week, the report, entitled “Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water,” and commissioned by the California State Water Resources Control Board, is the first comprehensive investigation of … Read more
Seventy-one percent of the world’s water-associated disease outbreaks reported between 1990 and 2008 were water-borne diseases caused by micro-organisms like E. coli that enter water through fecal contamination and cause infection when humans consume contaminated water. That was a major finding in a newly published study conducted by Ohio State University scientists who constructed a … Read more