Water Supply

In Massachusetts, contaminated drinking water linked to stillbirths

For nearly 20 years, New Englanders drank and bathed in water without knowing it was laced with a neurotoxin.

Publication Date: 
07/10/2014
Washington Post
Tags:
Water Supply, Drinking Water, Water Quality, Health Effects, Maternal Health, Environmental Health, California, United States Of America (US)
Natural Disasters

West’s historic drought stokes fears of water crisis

WILLOWS, Calif.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2014
Washington Post
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, California, Drinking Water Scarcity, United States Of America (US), Agriculture, Groundwater
Water Supply

Federal international venture fund helps yield clean drinking water in Uganda, Kenya

A single plastic container, blue like the color of a recycling bin, sits on a conference table at the USAID headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2014
Washington Post
Tags:
Drinking Water, Water Supply, Water Quality, United States Of America (US), Kenya, Uganda, Diarrhoea, Child Health
Health

Malnutrition, disease rising in camps of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims

Alittle girl balances a bag of donated rice on her head as she begs for her family of eight. Other children play in fetid, trash-clogged pools of water.

Publication Date: 
30/07/2014
Washington Post
Tags:
Health, Malnutrition, Diseases, Burma, Water Supply, Sanitation, Children, Starvation

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