*The Environmental Protection Agency issued more stringent standards on arsenic in drinking water, pollution by big trucks and buses and runoff from animal feeding operations.
Due to arsenic contamination of groundwater and water salinity, thousands of people in Morrelganj and its surrounding areas suffer from acute drinking water pollution.
These included door-to-door campaigns by NGO members, poster and banner displays, and formation of neighborhood committees to raise drinking water pollution awareness.
Concerns about drinking water pollution were forefront on the agenda, because the Toledo incident demonstrated that we are not adequately prepared to respond to toxic contamination.
It spells out frameworks for managing natural resource conservation and biodiversity, drinking water, pollution control, and environmental education.
We applied an extended multilevel approach to a large cross-sectional study aimed to elucidate the hypothesized link between drinking water pollution from perfluoroctanoic acid (PFOA) and plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) or lymphocyte counts.
In addition, we performed an alternative experiment selecting some subjects (n = 22) from the city (non-agricultural region) where the possibilities of drinking water pollution by pesticides or insecticides were very low.
had been leaching into the underground water table from thousands of gas tanks, and now the state has more than 13,000 spills that must be cleaned up, one of the worst cases of drinking-water pollution in the nation, experts say.
As part of an investigation into drinking-water pollution, the Environmental Working Group found that, "nearly two-thirds (62) of the agricultural chemicals detected in tap water are unregulated, with no legally mandated limit".
The New York Times and others have uncovered problems such as radioactive fracking waste, drinking water contamination, air pollution and more.
