Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Energy Transition & #Water Transformation Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof stated #Malaysia is ready to repair/rebuild the #CleanWater supply system in the #Gaza#Palestine, post-conflict.
He conveyed this to #Palestinian Water Minister Mazen Ghunaim, who is also the head of the #PalestinianWaterAuthority, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the high-level leadership meeting at the 10th #WorldWaterForum that concluded today,
Pres Biden promises safe water to NC residents by replacing lead pipes:
The Biden admin announced that it'll start distributing $3B to communities across the country to replace up to 1.7M on lead pipes. The allotment is the latest round of money promised under the bipartisan INFRA law, which is scheduled to dole out $15B to states over 5 years to update the country’s aged INFRA & eliminate lead service pipes. There's no safe level of exposure to #lead-.
The EPA. Under President Biden's administration, finally made a rule for "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.
These chemicals are bad for us, even in tiny amounts, and they can stick around in the environment for hundreds of years. The new rule should help reduce PFAS exposure for about 100 million people. It's been a long time since the EPA set a new drinking water standard, so this is a big deal. 🚰
A new study on future #cleanwater scarcity shows that we do have choices and can improve the situation, says PIK scientist Benjamin Bodirsky: "The deterioration of #wateraccess can be halted by adopting more efficient fertilizer use as well as more vegetarian diets, and by connecting a larger proportion of the global population to water treatment facilities.": https://tribune.net.ph/2024/02/06/pollution-risks-worsening-global-water-scarcity-study
Dr Tareq Abu Hamed, exec director of the #AravaInstitute for #EnvironmentalStudies, said that unique technology that can extract water from air was #UnderThreat during mass aerial bombardment in the strip & fighting between #Hamas & #IDF.
You know when you read about some fuckup in China where toxic waste was dumped, and ended up poisoning a town or whatever? You know how you think “man, “they” should do something about that!”. Well “they” in the United States is the EPA, and EPA does do something about, which is why most of us have clean water and food for our kids.
House Republicans just voted to gut the EPA. They are voting to make your kids less safe.
Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
Ongoing #fuel and #power shortages have hindered #CleanWater production and distribution due to the shutdown of #DesalinationPlants, #WaterTreatment plants and #PumpingFacilities. Although #Israel has reactivated one of the three water pipelines that were turned off following the total blockade, its supply has been reduced by one-fifth since October 22 according to the #UN. The severe #WaterCrisis is risking Palestinian lives.
NOLA is facing another possible intrusion of salt water from Gulf Of Mexico in their fresh drinking water supply.
These researchers say they have dramatically improved a passive solar powered desalination system for households that is now more effective and efficient than any other system currently being tested and is cheaper than tap water.
This succession movement to shift Oregon’s borders and make the red counties part of Idaho is the very essence of the modern MAGA movement. Political losers who think that government revolves around them and them alone. They are totally unwilling to accept defeat and that makes them the most dangerous people in today’s America. They’ll do anything to stay in power - break laws, commit violence, change the rules and laws and try to shift borders. To hell w/ all of them.
@gedeonm
If you want to live on your 40 acres with your 12 wives and accept no assistance from the government - I see NO PROBLEM with that.
I may even join you (except for the wives). It’s actually comforting to have a gun toting, God fearing, trot line running, survivalist neighbor who has my back. Hi friend.
But try to take away my #freedom, my right to #cleanair, #cleanwater, affordable #healthcare including abortion, my American right to live free from hate/bias aggression - Them are fighting words. Don’t mess with my freedoms 🇺🇸
I think conniving to move the Oregon/Idaho border is unpatriotic. I makes me wonder if y’all are itchin to expand the white nationalist cartel. Sketchy.
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?
"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."
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
First official nationwide test of #PFAS in drinking water, known to cause cancer, thyroid problems & lower birth weight in offspring, reveals 45% of all US, including those with private wells, are consuming dangerous forever chemicals.
It should be noted iron filtration systems, and boiling water does not remove PFAS.
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.