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December 22, 2012--EPA updates rule for pathogens in drinking water (Summit Daily)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has updated the rule for pathogens in drinking water, including setting a limit for the bacteria E. coli to better protect public health.

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November 14, 2012--‘Superbug’ MRSA found in U.S. wastewater treatment plants (Environmental News Service)

The “superbug” methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is prevalent at several U.S. wastewater treatment plants, scientists have found in the first study to investigate U.S. wastewater as an environmental reservoir of the bacteria.


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October 17, 2012--Refreshing the Clean Water Act (Los Angeles Times)

On Thursday, one of the country's most effective environmental laws — the federal Clean Water Act — will turn 40.


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April 12, 2012--River nutrients: It’s all about being healthy (Durango Herald)

Nutrients in water – sounds good. Like a vitamin-water mix. However, like vitamins, nutrients are good in the right amount and can be problematic in too high a dose. When talking about nutrients in water, the most common components discussed are nitrogen and phosphorus.


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December 7, 2011--Sewage treatment plants may contribute to antibiotic resistance problem (Science Daily)

Water discharged into lakes and rivers from municipal sewage treatment plants may contain significant concentrations of the genes that make bacteria antibiotic-resistant. That's the conclusion of a new study on a sewage treatment plant on Lake Superior in the Duluth, Minn., harbor that appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology. Timothy M.


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November 22, 2011--Abnormal levels of caffeine in water indicate human contamination (Science Daily)

Researchers led by Prof. Sébastien Sauvé of the University of Montreal's Department of Chemistry have discovered that traces of caffeine are a useful indicator of the contamination of our water by sewers.


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October 9, 2011--Nutrients are an emerging new water-quality concern (Durango Herald)

Colorado is proposing to control nutrients in water for the first time, but a Durango attorney says the rules are too complicated, based on weak science and exorbitantly expensive. Jeff Kane of Maynes, Bradford, Shipps & Sheftel brought Southwestern Water Conservation Dis


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September 23, 2009--Regulations might be needed for 104 chemicals found in tap water, EPA says (New York Times)

U.S. EPA has found 104 chemicals that might require regulations to keep them out of tap water -- the longest list of potential contaminants ever compiled by the agency.

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March 13, 2009--House approves funds for wastewater infrastructure (Denver Post)

The House on Thursday approved $19.4 billion to help states and local communities upgrade crumbling wastewater facilities, deal with sewage overflow and fight pollution in the Great Lakes.

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November 24, 2008--More than health damaged by ag nutrients in drinking water (Environmental News Service)

The pollution of fresh water by agricultural nutrients costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion a year in total, finds new research from Kansas St

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