Via: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uoia-wiy033109.php Contact: Debra Levey Larson, dlarson@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with organic material in the water
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Via: The Canadian Press, http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090325/national/mba_flooding WINNIPEG Manitoba’s chief medical health officer is advising people to be careful of the water they drink during flooding and spring runoff. Dr. Joel Kettner says in a release that water from wells or other questionable sources should be brought to a rolling boil for at least one minute before
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By: Rosemary Stephen. When I did my practicum, I came to understand, and value, that our profession protects the population from communicable diseases. Part of that protection involves doing pool inspections. For the safety and health of bathers we make sure that regulations are implemented. Things we look for include: proper and dependable safety equipment,
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via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 12/15/08 The Article 31 petition is trying to get the UN to add a new article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one that recognizes a fundamental right to water. It comes from the people who made the amazing documentary on water rights, Flow. In 1948, the
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via MAKE Magazine by Luke Iseman on 12/1/08 Worldchanging covered an important conference on an often-neglected concept: An international conference on Ecological Safety, held earlier this month in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, called attention to a dangerous sanitation issue by offering an inspiring and feasible solution. The problem: international donors are still promoting pit latrines… but most
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From: The Guardian News, October 22 2008. Written by: Caroline Richmond. With one simple clay pot he waged war on one of the world’s big killers One of the world’s most serious health problems is water-borne disease. Ron Rivera took a simple pottery filter that removes bacteria and parasites from water and devoted himself to
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From the Sidney Morning Herald, March 15, 2008 by Richard Macey. They are not angel fish, but they are Sydney’s guardian angels. In a small brick shed in the Southern Highlands eight tiny fish stand guard, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over the water flowing to more than 4 million people. Like
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