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...
by Liam Smith | November 10, 2021 | Environment, Health, History, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, Irrigation, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created by Richard Nixon in 1970, charged with the mission of making public health policy to protect human life and the environment. Over the past 50 years, the EPA has used the best available scientific research to create...
by Liam Smith | November 8, 2021 | Drinking Water, Health, Irrigation, Social Media, Water
What is a watershed and why are they important to us? A watershed is defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “the land area that drains to one stream, lake or river – affects the water quality in the water body that it surrounds”. Actually every inch...
by Liam Smith | November 4, 2021 | Drinking Water, Environment, Health, History, Population, Social Media
Don’t drink like the Romans did, you may end up mad as a hatter! A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the prevalence of lead in its citizens contributed to the fall of the Roman empire. According to the CDC, the short-term effects of lead...
by Liam Smith | October 25, 2021 | COVID-19, Drinking Water, Health, Industry, Irrigation, Population, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wastewater, Water
Heather Tanana, a resident of the Navajo Nation and an assistant professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, recently authored a report which found that tribes are facing water shortages, lack of indoor plumbing, and water contamination...
by Liam Smith | September 27, 2021 | Drinking Water, Health, Population, Social Media, Water
“In negotiating trillions of dollars of infrastructure investments, Congress should at a minimum make meaningful investments in water affordability programs that uplift and empower the most affected communities to move towards universal access to water,” associate...
