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Ocean acidification is likely to affect the ability of some shellfish to produce and maintain their shells. This process will not only wreak havoc on the shellfish we eat, but also on smaller marine organisms that are key components of the lower end of the marine food chain. (Thinkstock)

Goodbye coral. Goodbye shellfish.

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: carbon emissions, earthtalk, emissions, environment, Oceans, water, water pollution

Water usage in the bathroom

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Jan. 24 Leave a Comment

Some 60 percent of our household indoor water usage happens in the bathroom. Toilets are the biggest water hogs, with older models using as much as eight gallons per flush. A shower, even with a low-flow shower head, can use up to 40 gallons of water, and a bath can use up to 50-60 gallons. (Thinkstock)

It’s more than you thought!

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: bathroom, earthtalk, environment, pollution, waste, water, water waste

Global warming and water shortages

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Jan. 8 Leave a Comment

One out of three counties across the contiguous U.S., says a recent study commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council, should brace for water shortages by mid-century as a result of human induced climate change. (Media credit/Comstock)

Water supplies would be hit especially hard

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: climate change, environment, food, food shortages, global warming, water

Pharmaceuticals in the water

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Sept. 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Researchers have identified traces of pharmaceutical drugs -- including antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids -- in the drinking water supplies of some 40 million Americans. (Stockbyte)

Should you drink the water?

Filed Under: Earth and Environment, Health and fitness Tagged With: drugs, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs, water, water pollution, water supply

Consequences of stripping the EPA of water quality regulatory authority

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Aug. 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

A new bill, passed by the House of Representatives and awaiting vote in the Senate, aims to strip the EPA of its authority over individual states' water quality. Pictured: The Cuyahoga River on fire in 1952. When it happened again in 1969 it helped kick start the modern environmental movement including the establishment of the Clean Water Act and the founding of the EPA. (Media credit/Wikipedia)

It’s happening

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: drinking water, earthtalk, environment, environmental protection agency, water

Ocean dead zones

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Aug. 13, 2011 Leave a Comment

Perhaps the most infamous U.S. dead zone is an 8,500 square mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where the nutrient-laden Mississippi River, which drains farms up and down the Midwest, lets out.

Hypoxic oceans

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: dead zone, earthtalk, environment, ocean, pollution, water

Join Aveda’s Earth Month campaign for clean water. It’s as easy as going shopping!

By Shannon O'Neill

April 9, 2011 Leave a Comment

Who says beauty can’t change the world?

Filed Under: Beauty, Life Tagged With: aveda, Beauty, Earth and Environment, Earth Month, fundraiser, water

The right to clean and fresh water

By E - The Environmental Magazine

April 2, 2011 Leave a Comment

A 2009 World Health Organization and UNICEF study found that 24,000 children in developing countries die each day (one every three-and-a-half seconds) from preventable causes like diarrhea resulting from polluted water. Pictured. An Ethiopian girl drinks water from a newly-installed hand pump. (Water.org)

884 million people lack safe drinking water

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: drinking water, earthtalk, water, water pollution

Mining hurts water supplies

By E - The Environmental Magazine

March 12, 2011 Leave a Comment

Mine effluent is typically a stew of hazardous acid-generating sulphides, toxic heavy metals, waste rock impoundments and water. When this waste drains into local streams and aquifers, it can kill living organisms and render formerly pristine local waters unsafe to swim in or drink. (Media credit/Courtesy of ilovemountains.org)

Coal mining runoff is a hazardous stew

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: coal, coal mining, drinking water, mining, water, water pullution, water supply

Bottled water is an utter waste

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Feb. 27, 2011 1 Comment

Yes it is

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: bottled water, coke, drinking water, Pepsi, water

EarthTalk: Private water? Genetically-modified food?

By E - The Environmental Magazine

Sept. 11, 2010 1 Comment

Around the world, communities that cannot afford to keep fresh water supplies clean, safe and accessible have increasingly turned over management to private companies. (Media credit/Kris Krug)

Private companies managing the drinking water?

Filed Under: Earth and Environment Tagged With: drinking water, earthtalk, environment, food, genes, water

Technology can help those affected by Pakistan flood

By Sachin Seth

Aug. 4, 2010 3 Comments

Ironically, many of Pakistan’s displaced are suffering from dehydration during the country’s biggest flood in 80 years.

Filed Under: Global Issues, Terra, The Internal Blogs, The News Tagged With: bottle, children, dead, displaced, flood, jerrycan, lifesaver, michael pritchard, mud, north, Pakistan, ted, water

Tips to beat the Boston water boiling blues

By Emily Gonzalez

May 3, 2010 1 Comment

Fun alternatives

Filed Under: Life in Boston Tagged With: beach, boston, water, water boiling

List of communities under MWRA boil water order

By Blast Magazine Newsroom

May 1, 2010 Leave a Comment

Here is a list of the communities ordered to boil their drinking water after a 10-foot pipe, which supplies water from reservoirs to the Boston metro area, burst in Weston: Arlington Belmont Boston Brookline Canton Chelsea Everett Lexington Lynnfield Water District Malden Marblehead Medford Melrose Milton Nahant Newton Norwood Quincy Reading Revere Saugus Somerville Stoneham [...]