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Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters for Weed-Killer

Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer from their water supplies.

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Access to Water Key for World's Poor: Experts

A woman carrying empty jerri-cans looks for water vendors with hand-carts in July 2009 due to it's scaricity in Nairobi. (AFP)

STOCKHOLM - An international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials joined forces Monday to improve access to water and halt a tide of deaths in poor nations.

Some 2,000 experts met at a global water summit in Sweden to tackle problems related to the vital natural resource.

Millions of people worldwide die each year of water- and hygiene-related diseases, Sweden's minister for international development cooperation said as she opened World Water Week 2009.

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Should Water Be Legislated as a Human Right?

UNITED NATIONS - The growing commercialisation of water - and the widespread influence of the bottling industry worldwide - is triggering a rising demand for the legal classification of one of the basic necessities of life as a human right.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 4, 2009
4:10 PM

CONTACT: Water Advocates
John Sauer, Communications Director
Water Advocates
(202) 293-4003
jsauer@wateradvocates.org

Water Is Medicine: Why Act Now on the Water and Sanitation Crisis

WASHINGTON - August 4 - On July 29, the bipartisan Congressional Water Caucus and Water Advocates hosted a Capitol Hill Briefing on the vital linkages between safe drinking water, sanitation and global public health challenges. The briefing, titled "Water is Medicine," revealed that evidence shows inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are the developing world's largest cause of disease. WASH is also critical to sustainable progress across a broad spectrum of development needs-from hunger to environmental degradation.

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Water Advocates is the first US-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation.
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Senate Passes Energy Bill That Kills Yucca Facility

The Senate on Wednesday passed a $34.3 billion energy spending bill that backs up President Barack Obama's promise to close a nuclear waste facility in the southwestern state of Nevada.

The bill, passed by a 85-9 vote, also covers hundreds of water projects being undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Yucca Mountain project 90 miles (145 kilometres) from Las Vegas was designed to hold 77,000 tons of waste, but has been strongly opposed by the Nevada delegation, which had been outgunned in its efforts to kill it.

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Farmers Told How to Save Huge Amounts of Water

Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaks to thousands of farmers, farm workers and their supporters who were protesting water shortages at city hall Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Fresno, Calif. Protesters were hopeful a show of force would prompt an easing of federal regulations that have cut water supplies to the nation's most prolific growing region. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

California farmers could save enough water each year to fill Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy reservoir 16 times by using more efficient irrigation techniques, according to a study that is bound to be highly controversial among the state's powerful agriculture interests.

Posted in agriculture, climate change, conservation, Environment, water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 15, 2009
1:48 PM

CONTACT: American Rivers
Amy Kober, 206-213-0330 x23

American Rivers Applauds Introduction of Multi-Billion Dollar Water Trust Fund

$10 billion annual fund would support investments in clean water, drinking water

WASHINGTON - July 15 - American Rivers today applauded Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) for introducing legislation that establishes a Water Trust Fund to invest in fixing the nation's outdated drinking water and sewage treatment systems. The bipartisan legislation, the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 3202), establishes a $10 billion annual fund for repairing America's aging pipes and overburdened sewer systems, which pose serious threats to public health and the environment, and the security of the nation's communities.

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American Rivers is the only national organization standing up for healthy rivers so our communities can thrive. Through national advocacy, innovative solutions and our growing network of strategic partners, we protect and promote our rivers as valuable assets that are vital to our health, safety and quality of life.

Founded in 1973, American Rivers has more than 65,000 members and supporters nationwide, with offices in Washington, DC and the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, California and Northwest regions.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 15, 2009
11:50 AM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch (202) 683-2500

Food & Water Watch Applauds Introduction of Federal Trust Fund for Clean Water Infrastructure

Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter

WASHINGTON - July 15 - "Today, Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3) introduced legislation to establish a Water Protection and Reinvestment Trust Fund to support investment in drinking water and clean water infrastructure. We applaud Representative Blumenauer for this vital piece of legislation, which Food & Water Watch has advocated for over the past three years.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 8, 2009
11:41 AM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Julie Anderson (202) 683-2500

BP Records Show One of World’s Largest Oil and Gas Platforms Lacks Documents Needed for Safe Operation and Maintenance

Food & Water Watch Urges Federal Agencies to Launch Investigation into British Petroleum’s Atlantis Before Accident Leads to Environmental Devastation

WASHINGTON - July 8 - Today Food & Water Watch, a national consumer advocacy organization, urged the U.S. Department of the Interior and Minerals Management Service (MMS) to immediately suspend production on the largest moored floating dual oil- and gas-production facility in the world pending further investigation of documents critical to the project's safe operation and maintenance.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

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