Tag: water
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Save Water and Money by Replacing Your Shower Head with a WaterSense Model
One simple and fairly inexpensive home improvement can reduce your household water use by thousands of gallons per year. All you have to do is replace one older, inefficient shower head with a new WaterSense-labeled model. [caption id="attachment_311803" align="alignnone" width="500"] Showering accounts for nearly 17 percent of residential indoor water use, or about 30 gallons…
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Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?
A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam failed at the Obed Mountain coal mine and 264 million gallons (1 billion litres) of waste water contaminated at least 25 kilometers of the Athabasca river. Ten municipalities located downstream…
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Healthy Rivers Build Greater Resilience to Climate Change
Climate change is bringing more extreme floods and droughts, and large dams can compound the impacts of both. Dam failures, levees that cut off rivers from their floodplains and hydropower projects that lay idle in times of drought reduce the ability of societies to cope with the impacts of a changing climate. The new report, Civil…
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Oil and Gas Regulations Fail to Protect Communities’ Water
A report was released today identifying and examining the dangers to water quality posed by oil and gas production in the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. The report, Watered Down, shows how regulatory systems fail to protect residents and communities from the harmful effects of oil and gas development. The report’s findings are: Oil and…
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Fracking Victim Sued for Defamation After Proving Drinking Water Flammable
By Julie Dermansky Weatherford, TX, homeowner Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Range Resources, a large oil and gas company with a reputation for bullying its critics, nor is he trying to defame the company as it has accused him of in a defamation lawsuit demanding over $3 million. Lipsky, a private, conservative man who…