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Drinking water crisis: A California town fights back | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times - 2 views

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  • Matt Podbury on 08 Nov 10
     
    Drinking water pollution by pesticides in California
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Yellow River too polluted to drink - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 11 Dec 08
     
    China's heavy industries have tipped so much waste into the river that enormous stretches of it, amounting to over a third of its entire length, cannot be used at all anymore, either for drinking, fishing, farming or even in factories, according to criteria used by the United Nations Environmental Programme.
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Food products should carry 'water footprint' information, says report | Environment | g... - 0 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 26 Jul 09
     
    The hidden amounts of water used in manufacturing food and drink products should be made known to customers, according to lobby groups
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Transparency: Drinking Water | GOOD - 1 views

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 28 May 09
     
    It's the source of life but it's also the cause of a lot of unnecessary death. In places where clean water isn't available, water-related diseases like cholera cause massive diarrhea, dehydration, and thousands of deaths each day. Affordable water-treatment solutions exist.
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One-third of China's Yellow river 'unfit for drinking or agriculture' | Environment | g... - 0 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 11 Dec 08
     
    Severe pollution has made one-third of China's Yellow river unusable, according to new research.
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GOOD 005 - Transparency - Drink Up - 1 views

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 28 May 09
     
    The world's water resources are becoming increasingly valuable-and strained. GOOD and the Office of CC put the mind-boggling numbers in perspective.
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