In case you were wondering, Ethiopia doesn’t intentionally contaminate its water with fluoride chemicals. They come naturally from magma and other volcanic matter beneath the earth’s crust, rising to the surface via hot springs and other surface water that’s eventually drunk by local people groups. And the amounts of fluoride found in the water aren’t […]
Under the Safe Water Drinking Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for setting national drinking water standards. The EPA regulates over 80 contaminants—including arsenic, e-coli, cryptosporidia, chlorine, and lead—that may be found in drinking water from public water systems. While the EPA says that 90 percent of US public water systems meet […]
Photograph by Jonathan Hodgson, My Shot / Article: National Geographic A Clean Water Crisis The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago. While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time—continually recycled […]