Positive samples of E. coli in drinking water were detected beginning on Friday, September 2 in Baltimore’s Harlem Park/Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, an overwhelmingly Black area with some of the city’s highest rates of poverty. The first public announcement was...
Mexico is running out of water. Almost half of Mexico’s territory is currently experiencing a drought and there have been water shortages in over half of Mexico’s municipalities. In many cities and neighborhoods the taps have run dry for days at a time. In some parts...
While many people are familiar with the Flint water crisis, less people have heard about the water crisis in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where even higher concentrations of lead were found in the water system in 2018. Benton Harbor, Michigan has declared a state of...
A report recently came out shedding light on the state of water infrastructure across all of California. The report found that over 600 municipal water systems are at risk of failure, which has major implications for the safety of the drinking water in these...
A reservoir containing waste-water from a former phosphate mine in Piney Point, Florida, just off of Tampa Bay, leaked last month into a 79-acre system of ponds. The waste-water contains many dangerous chemicals, including significant amounts of radioactive materials,...
