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  Polluted Groundwater Runs "Downstream" For All Citizens
  The harmful byproducts of a closed mine are felt in Nevada.
  by breetreport / on Nov 22, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “groundwater”

• India, Bhopal: continuing nightmare, new study finds high levels of groundwater contamination

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 119
  For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards. These are the findings of a study released by the New ...
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• How Safe is Your Well Water?

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 126
  by Jessica Levinson Jessica Levinson is an environmental engineer from Nyack, New York. She has her undergraduate degree in biology and her master’s degree in environmental engineering. Jess is the past recording secretary for the Long Island Water Environmental Association...
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• Ground water worries mount for Kings County farmers after water rights sale to Mojave Water Agency

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 155
  From the Hanford Sentinel:“The battle over Kings County’s dwindling water supplies is going underground.Fresno County farmer Philip Erro is circulating a petition asking Kings County supervisors to pass an ordinance prohibiting anybody from pumping ground water after selling their surface water rights.The target ...
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• Bhopal’s Water Still Toxic 25 Years After Chemical Disaster

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Chemicals used to make pesticides are still leaching into the groundwater and poisoning the drinking water in areas up to 3 kilometers away, two studies found. Two reports published this week found that chemicals released in the 1984 gas explosion that killed thousands continue to contaminate Bhopal’s groundwater, ...
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• The Inconvenient Truth?

  
  Dhimant Parekh — Authority: 115
  Is global warming a hoax? Are the polar bears really disappearing? Will the Ganges become a seasonal river by 2035 due to rapid depletion of the Gangotri glacier? Will the sea levels rise high enough to gobble up coastal regions? Or is “Climate Change” the catchphrase of this decade, overriding some of the more ...
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• Bhopal continues to suffer from contamination, 25 years after Union Carbide disaster

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Bhopal, Dec.1 (ANI): Twenty five years after one of the most horrific industrial tragedy in which over 3000 people were killed and thousands affected, Bhopal continues to suffer as a latest report has revealed that that the Union Carbide (UCIL) has been contaminating the land and water of the city.According to latest ...
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• Bhopal gas leak survivors still being poisoned: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Bhopal, Dec 1 (IANS) The waste left behind at the Union Carbide factory that was closed 25 years ago after a fatal gas leak is continuing to poison people around the plant, says the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).“Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km from the factory contains almost 40 ...
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• Gazan farmers killing Gazan children

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 509
  (via DL), we hear this bad news : Water in the Gaza Strip is so salty that it is unfit for human consumption... ...the amount taken from underground aquifers last year to supply 1.5 million people with drinking water and for agriculture was 160 million cubic metres, but that natural replenishment was 80-90 million ...
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• Speed Blogging

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 509
  Some clever researchers have found the source of arsenic contaminating well water in Bangladesh: human-built ponds. This is great news -- the first step to ending one of the greatest poisonings in history. Put these guys in charge (they understand risk): "Citing fears of rising costs from climate change, ...
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• Sonoma Valley Groundwater Management Program

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 170
  A new trust is formed as environmentalists, farmers, winery owners, engineers and politicians come together to devise a plan to preserve Sonoma Creek and the groundwater of the Sonoma Valley.
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• Enforce environmental laws at oilsands: report

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  The federal government is not protecting rivers and groundwater near the northern Alberta oilsands, affecting people living as far upstream as Yellowknife, according to a report co-released Monday by seven environmental groups.
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• DEQ sets goals for water protection

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 638
  The Department of Environmental Quality says that amidst declining resources its Water Bureau is trying to meet its most critical obligations by prioritizing five goals and spelling out how to measure whether they are achieved. The Water Bureau’s “Measures of Success” document , released this month, describes ...
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• Congress, Michigan Legislature Asked to Fix Leaks in Great Lakes Compact

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  Photo by J. Carl Ganter/Getty Images A Great Lakes freighter charts the Manitou Passage off Leland in northwest lower Michigan at sunset. This channel between the Manitou and Beaver islands and the Lake Michigan shoreline offers a swift and protected course for vessels sailing north from Chicago, IL, to the Straits ...
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• Water Replenishment District celebrates 50 years of groundwater stewardship

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 155
  From Water Online:“Today, the Water Replenishment District (WRD or District) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. For half a century, the District has protected and replenished groundwater to the 420 square mile basins since November 17, 1959. The District was created to replenish the basins of the Los Angeles ...
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• Poll Results -- Water Bill Fail

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 509
  Hey! Theres a new poll (gimme health!) to the right ---> Californias Water Bill Package... ...will fix our problems  5% 2 ...will improve things  16% 6 ...will do very little  47% 18 ...will make things worse  32% 12 38 votes total ...
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• Speeding Up Mineral Reactions To Combat Global Warming

  
  What's With The Climate? — Authority: 127
  Cross posted at Reporting on a Revolution . The more familiar method of carbon dioxide sequestration involves capturing and pumping the gas into underground reservoirs where geological traps that have sealed natural gas for millions of years will serve to lock captured CO2 for eons as well. Nature has published a ...
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• Speeding Up Mineral Reactions To Fight Global Warming

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 414
  The more familiar method of carbon dioxide sequestration involves capturing and pumping the gas into underground reservoirs where geological traps that have sealed natural gas for millions of years will serve to lock captured CO2 for eons as well. Nature has published a paper by Jürg M. Matter and Peter B. Kelemen ...
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• Green Speed Air Powered Bike Gives Non Pollute Environment !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 483
  The designer Edwin Conan has designed a new mobile concept called Green Speed Air Powered Motorcycle. This bike features a non-pollute environment through gas emission and especially being cheaper. It has a lightweight rotary air engine that is more compact and powerful. The engine is powered by air from the tow ...
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• Catron County confluence

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 559
  A threat to Catron Countys groundwater brings conservative ranchers and liberal newcomers together.
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• Frack 2, Scene 1

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 559
  New York City fights drilling in its watershed, and even some energy executives say the industry needs to be more transparent about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
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