This is going to be a common refrain across the US this century. No water left to pump out of the ground.

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/09/chicago-suburbs-water-tap-lake-michigan/

#LakeMichigan #Illinois #water #WaterShortage #DrinkingWater #CleanWater

Is anything not polluting our water?

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00446

#water #cleanwater

@rbreich

Hmmm I'm guessing we're gonna see a lot of devlopment 'garchs ready to pave over those "worthless lands"

Rather than destroy what we have, what provides habitat for our threatened #biodiversity, what provides #CleanWater for both #wildlife and us humans, why not focus on redeveloping #brownfield sites, derelict buildings, and urban sites lying unimproved because of #RealEstate speculation?

We can do far better, far greener, far cleaner

#GreenDevelopment #Environment

"Atmospheric water harvesting provides decentralized and sustainable supplies of fresh water in areas away from natural water resources. However, an important challenge is that water sources such as fog are subject to contamination from airborne pollutants, especially near population centres. Here we demonstrate a rationally designed system that can capture fog at high efficiency while simultaneously degrading organic pollutants."

#cleanwater

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/08/collecting-clean-water-from-fog.html

#CleanAir #CleanWater #Global

Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

Nominations for the Excellence in Journalism Award will open January 11 to honor journalists for outstanding articles that enhance public understanding of the role and impact of civil engineering in designing solutions for #cleanwater, #transportation, #environment, and other public works projects. Entries are due by March 3. #journalism #award #civilengineering #design
https://www.asce.org/career-growth/awards-and-honors/asce-excellence-in-journalism-award

Claim #Scotland is half way to net zero is (only half) True
https://theferret.scot/claim-scotland-half-way-net-zero-true/

"It is important to note that neither of these figures include the amount of #climate pollution produced by the North Sea oil and gas industry. These emissions are not allocated to any individual country within the #UK "

What?

How about we keep it sensible & base mitigating #ClimateChange on prudent public health policies. #CleanAir, #CleanWater, #GreenSpaces & #healthy food are basic human rights.

Such scum.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 2020 campaign manager, two others agree to pay $50,000 for roles in East Palestine charity scam

One is also a former staffer to U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican.

https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-s-2020-campaign-manager-two-others-agree-to-pay-50000-for-roles-in-east-palestine-charity-scam/ar-AA1f6Jie?ocid=socialshare

#GOP #Republicans #Ohio #politics #ohpol #MTG #fraud #deceit #deception #foodbank #EastPalestine #food #hunger #trainwreck #trains #chemicals #health #derailment #Georgia #HouseGOP #pollution #environment #cleanwater

ADPH President Jim McManus on the history of decontaminating our water for public health #sewage #publichealth #cleanwater
https://www.adph.org.uk/resources/the-history-of-decontaminating-our-water/

#Farmers Deceived About #Sewage #Sludge Safety

April 2, 2010

"On March 27th [2010] Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the #Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US #EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as #fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia counties without informing farmers of the serious risks associated with this practice. The VA code specifies, that to be valid, these permits can only be granted with the #InformedConsent of the landowner.

"The Federal #CleanWater Act defines sewage sludge as a #pollutant. Most of the pollutants that sewage treatment plants remove from wastewater concentrate in the resulting sludge. Exempt from #hazardous and solid waste laws, sludge is being spread on #agricultural land, despite mounting scientific evidence and field reports that using this contaminated waste as a cheap fertilizer is neither safe, beneficial, nor sustainable.

"The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service as well as Nutri-Blend Inc., the company that needs permits to spread sludge, are failing to provide landowners with the necessary facts, so they can make an informed decision whether or not to treat their land with sludge. The widely distributed Extension Service biosolids fact sheets-- although deceptively dated May 9, 2009-- provide out-dated, inaccurate, incomplete, and in some cases, misleading information. They overstate the alleged benefits and totally ignore the known risks and recent documented evidence of adverse health and #environmental impacts linked to sludge use. The fact sheets and brochures give the illusion that land applying sewage sludge, a complex and variable mixture of #HumanWaste and thousands of industrial #chemicals, many of which are #toxic and persistent, is a safe and normal agricultural practice.

"The information provided to landowners deceptively downplays the health risks of exposure to odors, odorant compounds, endotoxins, bacteria-laden dusts, and toxic gases at land application sites that can cause severe and permanent #lung damage. Nor are farmers told that typical sludges generated in industrialized urban areas contain not only pathogens, but also #PCBs, #dioxins, #carcinogens, #pharmaceuticals, flame retardants [#PFAS], and hormone disrupting chemicals that can damage developing organisms in parts per trillion. Many of these pollutants do not break down once they are applied to land. Worse, partial breakdown products are often more toxic than the parent material. Yet federal regulations require testing and standards for only nine toxic metals. Perhaps most important, the information provided to farmers fails to disclose that the National Academies of Science has indicated that while there are serious health concerns associated with many of the constituents of sewage sludge, there is too much uncertainty to scientifically predict the true health and environmental risks, when this complex waste mixture is applied to land.

"Finally, farmers are not told that sludge-exposure has been linked to illnesses, human deaths, livestock mortalities, groundwater pollution, and permanently degraded land. Unless there is a true and accurate disclosure of all the risks associated with this practice, there can be no true consent.

"Without informed consent, the state should not be issuing permits."

Link to archived web page (TY @internetarchive!):
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227022631/https://organicconsumers.org/press/farmers-deceived-about-sewage-sludge-safety

#PFOS #ChemicalIndustries #ToxicWaste #WaterIsLife #ForeverChemicals

Introducing my latest oil painting from the "Digital Shamans" series: "Water Shaman Cleansing a Polluted River". This piece is a contemplative forest scene featuring an ageless shamaness, who sits by a watercourse, using her magic to purify the water.

The painting is a reflection of the human relationship with the life-giving resource of water. Access to clean drinking water has become a luxury. Companies like Nestlé, CocaCola, and Pepsico are buying up freshwater sources worldwide, only to sell the residents their own water in plastic bottles. Profits are valued higher than the preservation of our common basis of life in capitalism.

This painting is a call to action: boycott companies like Nestlé, CocaCola, and Pepsico. Our influence as consumers is now greater than our voice in elections.

In the creation of this painting, I collaborated closely with the AI model GPT-4 to conceive the concept, and then used the generative designer AI Midjourney to create the digital template for the oil painting. This process is a testament to the harmony that can be achieved between human and artificial intelligence.

#Art #AI #DigitalShamans #CleanWater #BoycottNestle #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottPepsico #ConsumerPower #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateJustice

Using #greywater has been technologically available and many people clandestinely use their laundry#water in their gardens. Glad to see this is finally happening at a #municipal level. #CleanWater https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/07/11/water-recycling?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YESDaily_20230724&utm_content=YESDaily_20230724+CID_7263ae0086487193df81fc260785bd9b&utm_source=CM&utm_term=Read%20the%20story

This looks like a great innovation — small scale (suitcase size, < 10 kg), low power, portable desalination / filtration units https://greekreporter.com/2023/07/21/mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button/

h/t (because credit) @AAronL1968
original paper: "Portable Seawater Desalination System for Generating Drinkable Water in Remote Locations"
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c08466
#refugees #water #CleanWater

4) A story from my backyard which illustrates the regenerative power of nature when local people care about their waterways. #TheBronx used to be a byword for urban blight not just in New York and America, but the whole planet

Now dolphins swim in its river which used to be little more than an industrial sewer. Local action can fix what are often thought of as intractable problems

#Environment #CleanWater #Regeneration

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dolphins-bronx-river-new-york-city/

Sometimes, oftentimes, we so-called "alarmists" are spot on - "Drought leaves millions in #Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking - After years of underinvestment, reservoir has had to be topped up from estuary, raising health concerns - More than half of Uruguay’s 3.5 million citizens are without access to tap #water fit for drinking, and experts say the situation could continue for months.

Some had predicted the crisis years ago when pointing out the vulnerability of the single reservoir supplying water to the metropolitan area around the capital, #Montevideo.

By Latin American standards, Uruguay is a high-income country and it has historically thought of itself as having abundant water resources. Those who warned of diminishing supplies were considered catastrophists and investment was postponed.

Three consecutive years of #drought have almost emptied the reservoir of fresh water, and to avoid shortages the state-run water supplier, OSE, has since the beginning of the year been gradually adding brackish water from the Rio de la Plata estuary.

By early May the mix had reached the maximum levels of sodium and chlorides recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), and now it has double those levels, giving the water a repulsive taste and raising questions about potential effects on health.

Authorities maintain that the chemicals only affect the taste and smell of the water and do not necessarily pose a risk to most people’s health.

Some vulnerable groups such as babies, pregnant women and people with health conditions have been warned against drinking the water but there have been conflicting claims about its safety for the broader population."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/15/drought-leaves-millions-in-uruguay-without-tap-water-fit-for-drinking

#Water #WaterRights #SouthAmerica #LatinAmerica #Colonialism #CleanWater #DrinkingWater #Drought #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Klima #Klimakrise #Capitalism #CapitalismKills #Kapitalismus

Interesting effort in #maine to protect #drinkingwater from #pfas pollution. This might be a good model for #virginia to follow #cleanwater H/T @acapron https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/maine-bans-sewage-sludge-fertilizer-farms-pfas-poisoning

A new purification system developed by researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology uses an electrified version of #dialysis to separate salt and other unnecessary particles from the potable product, enabling scientists to desalinate water at 90% less cost than current methods. They're planning to move to larger bodies of water.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230626164240.htm

#CleanWater #Desalination

@AP “We should be requiring polluters to treat their own wastes.” #pollution #cleanwater #pfas

💦 “Urban waste water treatment can play an important role in making Europe a frontrunner towards #ZeroPollution. - @EU_CoR Rapporteur @agrenwikstrom whose opinion has been adopted at the #CoRplenary.
#EUGreenDeal #CleanWater
Read more 👉 https://www.eppcor.eu/press-releases/ambitious-and-realistic-targets-reduce-pollution-will-save-lives-and-environment
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Åsa Ågren Wikström: 🇸🇪🇪🇺 YTTRANDET ANTAGET!
Yes! Igår antogs mitt yttrande om lagstiftningsförslaget gällande avloppsrening efter förhandling, debatt och votering i Regionkommitténs plenarsession! @EPP_CoR
Äntligen i mål! https://www.agrenwikstrom.com/2023/07/06/antligen-i-mal/ https://t.co/Z31ePNTWTB
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPP_CoR/status/1676864368871370752

Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/study-says-drinking-water-from-nearly-half-of-us-faucets-contains-potentially-harmful-chemicals/ar-AA1dtVIO #CleanWater #pollution #infrastructure