Wastewater

Water Ills Focus of New Documentary

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Australia, Participant Media, Jay Famiglietti, Endocrine Disrupters, Agriculture, Texas, Recyced Water, Pollution, Peter Gleick, Film, California, Tyrone Hayes, Jessica Yu, Aaron Wolf, Water, Erin Brockovich, Pollutants, Food, Hexavalent Chromium, Wastewater, Bottled Water, Video, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Green News
Bill Chameides

2012-05-03-Screenshot20120503at9.29.37AM.jpgLast Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."

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Major Retailers Contribute To Severe Water Pollution In China: Report

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Cleaning Up the Fashion Industry, Retail Supply Chain, Fast Fashion, Environmental Violations, Textile Factory Pollution, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Ma Jun, Wastewater, Toxic Waste Dumping, Business News

The sassy spring colors flooding into America's stores are also polluting Chinese rivers, according to a new report. Textile suppliers of Zara, H&M...

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Earth Day 2012: Harder to See, Harder to Catch

Peter Hanlon | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Earth Day, Epa, Factory Farms, Clean Air Act, Toxic Chemicals, Clean Water Act, Slidepollajax, Documerica Photos, Earth Day 2012, Wastewater, 1970s Environmental Problems, 1970s Environment, Green News
Peter Hanlon

It's perversely easy to wax nostalgic for the bad old days, and not just because the images are so captivating. Environmental problems were so much more apparent back then.

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Energy and Earthquakes: A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Energy, Oil Production, Fracking, Earthquake, U.S. Department of the Interior, Shale Gas, Oil Drilling, Oil, Gas Production, Hydrofracking, Shale, U.S. Geological Survey, Hydraulic Fracturing, Geology, Wastewater, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Could it be that the increase in earthquakes is specifically tied to the growing practice of using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release oil and gas from shale and other tight formations?

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After Quakes, Owner To Lower Pressure In Ohio Well

AP | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Northstar Disposal Services LLC, Video, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Oil Drilling, Earthquakes, Gas Drilling, Ohio, Ohio Earthquakes 2011, Ohio Earthquakes, Wastewater, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to ...

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Top 10 Water-Related Things to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

Steve Fleischli | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Congress, Showers, Santa Monica Bay, Water, Agriculture, Toilets, Clean Water Act, Environment, Slidepollajax, Clean Water, Wetlands, Oceans, Wastewater, Pollution, Green News
Steve Fleischli

This Thanksgiving I'm thinking about all the amazing ways in which water makes life better -- ways that are perhaps so fundamental to our everyday existence.

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The Emotion of Wastewater

Jim Lauria | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Green, Singapore, Water, Wastewater, Green Technology, Green News
Jim Lauria

I'm at the American Water Works Association conference in Washington, DC, this week, and was asked to nominate a water project for a LinkedIn water pr...

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Millions Of Gallons of Sewage Burst From Tenn. Treatment Plant

AP | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Sewage, Gatlinburg, Utilities, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Wastewater, Industrial-Accident, Tennessee, Industry, Workers Missing, Green News

GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- A holding tank at a sewage treatment plant in a Smoky Mountains tourist town gave way early Tuesday, leaving two workers missing ...

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Appalachia Gas Drilling Yields A Foul Byproduct

AP | MARC LEVY and VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wastewater Fish, Marcellus Shale Formation, Appalachia, Fracking, Drack Water, Appalachia Drilling, Drilling, Natural Gas Drilling, West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, Wastewater, Wastewater Tap Water, Green News

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A drilling technique that is beginning to unlock staggering quantities of natural gas underneath Appalachia also yields a trou...

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Getting More Out of the Men's Room

Steve Fleischli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Poseidon Resources, Desalination, Mwd, San Diego, Waterless Urinals, Water Conservation, Wastewater, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Coastal Restoration, Los Angeles, Metropolitan Water District, Green News
Steve Fleischli

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.

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