According to an article in the Irvine World News, the Irvine Ranch Water District Board recently approved the long-sought agreement to clean up ground water contaminated by pollutants from the former El Toro air base in Orange County, Calif.
The United States must invest an additional $250 billion to replace aging drinking water infrastructure over the next 30 years, reports a national study conducted by the American Water Works Association (AWAA) on the nation's drinking water infrastructure.
Council says a more science-based approach is needed to improve a federally mandated program that requires states to clean up U.S. lakes, rivers and other bodies of water.
The EPA's National Center for Environmental Research is seeking research proposals by Sept. 17 from U.S. academic and nonprofit institutions and state and local governments for $6 million in grants earmarked for four areas of research on chemical and microbial drinking water contaminants.
A new technique that uses an inexpensive, disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is garnering attention in the oil and gas industry.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it does not need to issue a standard of quality regulation for bottled water in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) issuance of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs) for the control of cryptosporidium contamination in surface water sources for public drinking water.
The EPA recently won commitments from 36 chemical manufacturers to provide information critical to evaluating the potential health risks to children from 20 commonly used chemicals.
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