by Deborah | Nov 6, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Social Media
Written by Ellie Cabell We in the Western U.S. are accustomed to battles over water between agricultural and urban consumers. Now clean, clear, delicious water has become so precious, even the bottled water ubiquitous in our lives is being contested. The Nestle water...
by Deborah | Oct 28, 2020 | Environment, Industrial Wastewater, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater
Yet another spill of contaminated produced water! Husky Energy just announced that 900,000 litres of produced water spilled from one of its pipelines in northwestern Alberta. That’s a lot of toxic water on the loose! Produced water is a byproduct of oil &...
by Deborah | Oct 2, 2020 | Climate Change, Environment, Social Media, Wildfire
Just don’t breathe it … that’s what my doctor’s office told me yesterday. Surf the Internet’s medical sites and you’ll find the smoke from wildfires is accused of dramatically increased asthma attacks, damage to your lungs and heart, strokes, and even heart attacks...
by Deborah | Sep 28, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Health, Social Media, Water
Looks like a harmless body of water, right? Maybe not. I hadn’t heard of this happening for years – not since I lived in Orlando when a couple of people died from the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. Our parents always warned us not to dive into, or...
by Deborah | Aug 31, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Water
If you could help the states that are drying up get 876 billion gallons more of water, would you do it? All it would take is putting regulations in place that would allow the treatment and reuse of produced water for agriculture, or at the oil & gas well pad where...