by Amanda Sotolongo, IX Water intern In developing countries, education is largely tied to water. This is because when the community has no running water, women often have to spend their days gathering water for the household. It is estimated that the women in...
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The Terrible T
By treating and cleaning their produced water using IX Water’s new technology, oil & gas operators can safely reuse it onsite, or provide it to neighboring farms and ranches. It also saves operators from paying huge sums to truck their produced water offsite, and to tru…
B is for Big and Bad
Exposure to benzene can cause short and long-term health effects, including death. Benzene is prevalent in the “produced water” generated by oil & gas extraction operations. Produced water is by far the largest volume byproduct stream associated with oil & gas explorati…
“Whaaaaaat? You want to blame me?”
Across the U.S., cattle-feed crops account for 23% of all water consumption. In the Colorado River Basin, it’s over half.
Another step forward in the fight against water pollution
On Tuesday, the U.S. House passed the William M. Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). While most of the bill is not related to water, it DOES include some good regulation regarding PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) pollution generated by the U.…
Thank you, CBS, for the Sharks
This morning, CBS News ran a short piece on the plight of our oceans’ sharks which are vanishing. BUT – CBS News: Why didn’t you mention “Shark-finning” is at the root of the shark decline?!
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