by Liam Smith | April 5, 2022 | Agriculture, Climate Change, Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, Industry, Social Media
How Will Climate Change Affect You at Home in Colorado The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an exhaustive 3,676-page report titled the Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Caused by Climate Change for 2022. According to the...
by Ellie Cabell | March 31, 2022 | COVID-19, Health, Social Media
Consumer Reports tested the packaging of over 100 food products from US restaurants and grocery stores and found PFAS chemicals in many of them. PFAS, called “forever chemicals,” are man-made chemical products that have been used worldwide since the 1950s, most...
by Liam Smith | December 22, 2021 | Drinking Water, Health, Population, Social Media, Wastewater, Water
A Bill was passed by Congress in 2018 that was meant to prevent cyber-security breaches on America’s 167,000 public water systems and water treatment plants. An analytics team at Booz Allen Hamilton published a paper that found our country’s water utilities to be “a...
by Liam Smith | December 15, 2021 | Health, Social Media, Wildfire
Toluene, also called methylbenzene, is a natural chemical solvent often added to paint, metal cleaners, various fuels, nail polish, printing inks, and stain removers. It is also naturally produced in smoke from wildfires. It is a colorless liquid. It smells sweet and...
by Liam Smith | December 8, 2021 | Energy, Location, Water
California has come up with a truly Californian way to save their dwindling amounts of water: by covering canals with solar panels. According to nature.com, researchers from various UC campuses conducted a feasibility study of the effects of covering California’s open...
by Liam Smith | December 1, 2021 | Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, Social Media
Landfill leachate results when water from precipitation and rotting waste percolate. They may become toxic when high concentrations of organic and inorganic pollutants mix with the liquids. As little as 36 inches of precipitation can result in one million gallons of...
by Liam Smith | November 29, 2021 | Social Media, Water
On November 18, 2021, the EPA Administrator, Michael S. Regan and the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Jaime A. Pinkham, signed a proposed rule to revise the definition of “Water of the United States” (WOTUS) – which phrase governs the geographic...
by Liam Smith | November 28, 2021 | Health, History, Social Media
Metals are lustrous minerals that conduct heat and electricity to some degree. Other minerals are classified as non-metals or metalloids. Both classes are non-conductive or less conductive than true metals. Metals have been crucially important to the development of...
by Liam Smith | November 24, 2021 | Social Media, Water
How do we measure what qualifies as a drought, or how severe that drought might be? There are several different ways, but most are incomplete. One measure is how many days have passed without precipitation — but that omits important information, like how many days...
by Liam Smith | November 17, 2021 | Agriculture, Drinking Water, Environment, Health, Industry, Irrigation, Location, Oceans, Population, Social Media, Water
Water infrastructure on the island of Puerto Rico desperately needs funding in order to be capable of supplying clean water to all residents. The 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card found that the island needs to increase infrastructure by $1 billion...
