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A worker maintaining a tank at a Brooklyn wastewater treatment plant. Half the rainstorms in New York overwhelm the system.
By CHARLES DUHIGG
Many sewer systems are frequently overwhelmed, with sewage spilling into waterways and polluting them with excrement and industrial chemicals. Read more
Even as a growing number of coal-burning power plants around the nation have moved to reduce their air emissions, many of them are creating another problem: water pollution. Power plants are the nation’s biggest source of toxic waste, and while much of that waste once went into the sky, because of toughened air pollution laws, it now often goes into lakes and rivers, or landfills that have leaked into nearby groundwater, say regulators and environmentalists. Read more
Agricultural runoff is the single biggest source of water pollution in the nation’s rivers and streams, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Yet farm waste is largely unregulated by many of the federal laws designed to prevent pollution and protect drinking water sources. Read more
Almost four decades after Congress passed the Clean Water Act, the rate of water pollution violations is rising steadily. In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment. Read more
Nov 30th, 2009 by Michaela
Atrazine has become among the most common contaminants in American reservoirs and other sources of drinking water. New research suggests that the weed killer may be dangerous at lower concentrations than previously thought, particularly for fetuses. Read more
Nov 11th, 2009 by brendaa
A presentation on Guiding the Public Health Nursing Curriculum
by Ann H Cary PhD MPH RN A-CCC
Loyola University New Orleans
Presented at the American Public Health Association to the Quad council on November 8, 2009.Water and Curriculum APHA
Nov 11th, 2009 by Michaela
Lillian Mood
The following is an excerpt from a presentation to Quad Council of the American Public Health Association by Lillian Mood, RN, MPH, FAAN; Lillian spoke on the issue of water and public health.
One of the strengths of our PHN (Public Health Nurses ) Section is its inclusiveness—a refusal to be insulated, the desire to be connected and to make partners of all who share our mission, our passion for championing the public’s health—the health of people and the connection between health and the conditions in which we live.
Connection is a key word. One of the first basic principles I was taught by my colleagues in environmental health was “Everything is connected to everything else.” There is no better illustration of that truth than the topic of this session and this entire APHA conference —WATER.
For the full presentation click here: Lillian Mood’s Presentation
Nov 6th, 2009 by brendaa
Final Quad Council Presentation_and drink plenty of water
Nurses, as primary health providers in the community, must be able to field questions and guide vulnerable populations to informed decisions. The attached Presentation was made at the American Public Health Association’s Quad Council’s Institute on Sunday, November 8, 1009.
“From earliest times, we and our ancestors have depended on water as a highway, a sewer, a pathway to discovery, a means to an empire, an irrigator of crops – in short, as a social as well as a chemical necessity. Chemistry, however, remains the bottom line: whatever else we do with water, we must also drink it.”
– Charles J Hitch
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