At least one in four people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water from a home faucet.
Roughly 3.5 billion people lack sanitary toilet facilities.
Dirty water sickens and kills millions of people annually via waterborne diseases.
America’s Deadliest Waterborne Disease Is Not Letting Up
Legionnaires’ disease continues to sicken and kill people.
Seeking Answers to a Cancer Crisis in Iowa, Researchers Question if Agriculture is to Blame
State with fastest rising cancer incidence digs deeper for source of malignant risks.
An Iowa Farm County Seeks Answers To Cancer Rate 50% Higher Than National Average
Palo Alto County has second highest cancer incidence among all U.S. counties.
New Report Sparks Questions and Controversy Over Possible Causes for Iowa “Cancer Crisis”
Binge drinking doubted as cause of Iowa’s rising cancer incidence.
“We Can’t Sit Back” – Amid Polluted Water and Climbing Cancer Rates, Iowa Eyes Farm Chemicals
Health authorities react to rampant fertilizer and pesticide contamination in water.
Wildfire Rampage Injures Lungs in the Great Lakes
People are unprepared for smoke from forest fires worsened by intense drought and heat.
US Regulators Order Minnesota to Clean Up Nitrate Contaminated Water
EPA acts to limit an “imminent” health threat.
EPA Restarts Assessment of Health Risks from Nitrate in Water
The agency will evaluate the hazards from agriculture’s primary water pollutant.
EPA Warns of Health Problems When PFAS Levels in Drinking Water Are Inconceivably Tiny
Revised health advisories are a precursor to federal regulation.
Child diarrhea cases surge as sewage runs on Cape Town streets
Like clockwork, diarrhea among children spikes sharply during Cape Town’s long summer. The city tends to blame the heat and people’s poor hygiene practices, but its own sewage infrastructure may be the real culprit.