Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink

March 22, 2021 / by News Editor / drinking water, Environment, Environmental News Service, facilities water management, Fresh Water, freshwater, irrigation, Journalism, Latest News, Oceans, RSS, SSC Services for Education, United Nations, Volkan Bozkir, Water, water conservation, World Water Day

Published by the Environmental News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2021 (ENS) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent is the salt water of the oceans; just three percent is freshwater. Of that, only 1.2 percent can be […]

ACC releases updated review of U.S. drinking water chlorination practices and issues

October 3, 2016 / by American Chemistry / American Chemical Council, Chemical Products, Chemical Safety, Chlorine, drinking water, Fresh Water, Health, Industry, North America, Oceans, Public Health, Safety, Water

Imagine living in a world without chlorine disinfection of drinking water…You would have no idea when a dreaded disease might strike you down or strike down your children or other family members. This is the world that everyone in the U.S. lived in at the turn of the twentieth century. –Michael J. McGuire in the […]

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