Tag Archive | "Water Quality"
Heal The Bay Says California Beaches Are Getting Cleaner
California beaches are getting cleaner, says Heal The Bay. According to the results of their annual beach water quality study, approximately 92% of the 447 beaches that they tested across the state during the period from Memorial Day to Labor Day were found to appear clean. The Santa Monica-based environmental entity, which releases a yearly [...]
Continue reading...Heal the Bay Says Los Angeles County Beach Water Quality Lower Than Last Year
Friday, May 27, 2011
The shores of Los Angeles County rank among the most dangerous in terms of bacterial levels, after making gains in water quality last year, comes the word from Heal The Bay’s 21st annual Beach Report Card, released Wednesday. The group assigned letter grades to nearly 100 beaches across the county based on bacteria pollution tests [...]
Continue reading...UCSB Water Project Wins Best Practice Award for Sustainability
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
UC Santa Barbara has received a Best Practice Award in the annual Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Awards competition sponsored by the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. UCSB was a winner in the category of Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality for its San Nicolas wetland and library mall storm drain project. The storm drain replacement [...]
Continue reading...Bay Area Beaches Grade Well for Safe Swimming (SF Gate)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Get out your snorkel and wet suit. The water quality of most Bay Area beaches is cleaner, and safer for swimming, than it has been in years, according to a study released Wednesday. More than 90 percent of Bay Area beaches received top grades in the annual report by Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica [...]
Continue reading...Website Spotlight: takebackthetap.org
Friday, February 26, 2010
A possible signal of a new movement, takebackthetap.org is a site run by Food & Water Watch to create awareness in the public of the misconceptions most have about both tap water and bottled water, especially in terms of cleanliness and environmental friendliness. The bottom line? Just because water comes in a sealed plastic bottle [...]
Continue reading...Up A Creek: Long Beach’s Battle To Clean Up The LA River
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
A floating plastic bag travels down the Los Angeles River and enters the Long Beach Harbor, where it joins several metric tons of trash, debris, pollutants. You name it. There could be waste from an upstream sewer spill, or chemicals that found their way into the aqueduct system. All of it combines to fester off [...]
Continue reading...California Receives $2.8 Million in Economic Recovery Funds to Improve Water Quality, Create Jobs
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The award will attempt to generate crucial jobs while improving the state’s water quality SAN FRANCISCO June 15, 2009 – In an effort to improve water quality and create jobs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.8 Million to the California State Water Resources Control Board under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]
Continue reading...LAUSD Faucets shut off at schools due to high lead levels
Monday, March 16, 2009
Following a four-month testing program, Los Angeles Unified has turned off 2,000 water faucets and fountains at 660 schools because of high levels of lead, officials said Thursday. The affected fountains and faucets amount to about 3 percent of the 66,000 outlets tested since November but were located in nearly three-quarters of the district’s schools. [...]
Continue reading...They’re Drinking It Up In New York
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
(From the LA Times)Reporting from New York — Two teachers on their lunch break scanned a refrigerated shelf inside a Manhattan coffee shop lined with drink bottles: Naked Juice, Perrier, Smartwater, New York City tap water. “Tap water?” said Alison Szeli, 26, picking up the clear plastic bottle with orange letters: “Tap’d NY. Purified New [...]
Continue reading...Research Names 11 Most Frequently Occuring Chemicals in Tap Water
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A comprehensive survey of the drinking water for more than 28 million Americans has detected the widespread but low-level presence of pharmaceuticals and hormonally active chemicals. Little was known about people’s exposure to such compounds from drinking water, so Shane Snyder and colleagues at the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water [...]
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- LADWP Plans 37% Rate Hike Over 4 Years to Cover Cost Increases (LA Times)
- Where Does Los Angeles' Water Come From?
- Busting Common Soft Water Myths
- Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card: Los Angeles Water Quality Remains Worst in California
- PWQA urges action against new California water softener-ban bill (AB1366)
- Bill to Ban Water Softeners Passes CA Assembly
- What's The Right Water Treatment System For Me?
- California's Nitrate Problem Grows Unchecked (SF Chronicle)
- Several Orange County Beaches Still Closed After Sewage Spill
- Big California snowpack no panacea for water users (San Jose Mercury News)
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- Know Your Contaminant: Atrazine
- EPA Testing for Carcinogenic Contaminants in Burbank/Glendale Groundwater
- NSF Develops Methods to Certify Quality of Water Filter Bottles, But Are They Missing The Point?
- Oregon Energy Firm Aims To Use Water To Create Volcanic Energy
- Legionnaires’ Outbreak At WI Hospital Was Spread Via Water Sculpture
- Study Argues There’s No Difference Between Recycled Wastewater and Tap Water.
- How Banana Peels Are Able To Treat Contaminated Water
- WaterCop Automatic Water Shut-Off System Puts Leaks On A Leash
- Southern California Water Supply Report 2012
- Water Condition & Purification Magazine Profiles Rayne Water Systems
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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