Kill the Drill is a campaign to voice opposition to any hydraulic fracturing in the city's upstate watershed, which supplies 90 percent of New York City's drinking water.
Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
The Metropolitan Water District is considering two competing projects -- with two very different approaches -- to provide Southern California an extra fifty million gallons of freshwater per day.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Some experts think the number of people with unsafe drinking water could easily be 2 billion -- maybe even more. The statistics are fuzzy and no on really knows how bad it is. They just know it is bad.
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A jury has found Exxon Mobil liable for contaminating New York City's groundwater with a gasoline additive and has awarded the city $...
Gina Solomon | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Almost ten years after Julia Roberts played the title role in the movie, the saga about chromium contamination in drinking water continues.
ProPublica | Abrahm Lustgarten | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
A preliminary report from a consultant hired by New York City warns that "nearly every activity" associated with natural gas drilling could potentiall...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...
AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
FRESNO, Calif. — A California senator called on the head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to disclose how the agency plans to ad...
ProPublica | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Stee...
The Denver Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
What city or town has the best tasting water in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming? Aurora, of course....
The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...
Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Walk into any supermarket and you will be bombarded with the smarter, better, or life changing water. You walk down the ale and then you don't know what makes sense.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...
cookinglight.com | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
When it comes to health, drinking the recommended daily amount of water is more important to women than having enough sex, according to a national sur...
ProPublica | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...
Elizabeth Royte | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
We must fix our municipal systems -- upgrade treatment plants to remove contaminants, repair pipes and better protect our watersheds from pollution.
Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Cucumber water is so refreshing on hot summer days and looks quite elegant simply sitting on the kitchen counter or table, too.
Jessica Lappin | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
In New York and across the country, hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) is used to access underground natural gas deposits. The prospects for pollution and contamination of our water supply, in an effort to get to the gas, are real and dangerous.
Chris Kyle | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
For goodness sakes, if my grandfathers could survive World War II, surely I can survive my bachelor party.
ProPublica | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturi...
Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.
Scott Ballum | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
The folks behind the TapIt Water initiative are taking the 'convenience' excuse out of the case for bottled water.
Hedrick Smith | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green
Chemicals in consumer products are finding their way into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into our drinking water. Millions of people are drinking endocrine disruptors in their tap water.
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Where does your drinking water come from? Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The ans...
Scott Stringer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York