When I found out about the boil water notice, I had just drank about half of my water bottle full of Prince Rupert tap water.
At first I was concerned.
I’m still haunted by my date with beaver fever in Nepal, and many other pleasantries that are often a traveller’s right of passage in many parts of the world.
There are 65 long-term drinking water advisories on reserves in this country, as of Dec. 14, according to Indigenous Services Canada.
The local nurse told me that it was because my skin wasn’t used to their water.
Fortunately, I was able to leave and recover.
We had an E. coli contamination in the water there, and the taps were shut right off.
Once again, the boil water notice came and went.
My car doesn’t need to be washed, ever, and that surge of rainwater we just got is now turning the mountains into playgrounds for ski bums.
This boil water notice is just a blip in the system to remind us of how great we have it here, when the water is clean.

Residents of several villages in the district have been facing hard times due to non-availability of clean drinking water and are forced to use pond water for drinking purpose and daily use.
TANK, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 20th Dec, 2018 ) :Residents of several villages in the district have been facing hard times due to non-availability of clean drinking water and are forced to use pond water for drinking purpose and daily use.
Dozens of villages have no access to potable water as civic body has totally failed to supply provision of drinking water.
Due to acute shortage of drinking water and worsening situation people have been forced to bring water from far flung areas and buy water from open market.
Presently, cost of one water-cane was Rs 40 which was out of reach of poor people.
The residents of Tajori, Abi Zar, Namdari, Sharbati, Gul Imam and many other areas were facing water crisis in the district.
Moreover, people are unable to fetch water from tube-well installed by the Public Health Department due to low-voltage and long hour of power load shedding.
District Ameer of JUI-F Maulana Sharifuddin, while strongly condemning the indifferent attitude of local authorities, has demanded the high-up to take immediate notice of people’s suffering and take immediate steps to overcome drinking water shortage in number of villages.
He called upon Commissioner Dera Ismail Khan to issue directives to officials concerned to restore water supply.

In a story Dec. 18 about an EPA water regulation rollback, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a quote to Environmental Protection Agency acting administrator Andrew Wheeler.
It should have been attributed to American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall.
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"When Obama-EPA put forward these definitions, they claimed it was in the interest of water quality.
"We are here today to tell you that we’re putting an end of that power grab."
Environmental groups have warned the proposed overhaul will be a grave assault on the aims of the 1972 Clean Water Act, the foundational U.S. water protection law.
The Trump administration would remove federal protections for wetlands nationally unless they are connected to another federally protected waterway.
The Clean Water Act bans polluting any "water of the United States" without a permit.
Others counter the protections are an obstacle to farmers and businesspeople — adding that the current state of regulations has caused confusion for land owners, particularly when it came to permit requirements for protecting those federally protected waterways.

The investment is part of the firm’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program.
The program has so far gratified 150,000 households in Migori and Siaya counties and has assisted the Kisumu County Government in flood areas and during cholera outbreaks.
P&G’s initiative to provide clean drinking water is geared towards reducing sickness and death in children who drink contaminated water which complements the Government’s pledge to providing universal health care.
“According to water.org, 41 per cent of Kenyans still rely on unimproved water sources, such as ponds, shallow wells and rivers.
Stakeholders in private and public sector need to collaborate to improve this situation.
Knowing this drives us to continually put in place interventions in collaboration with our partners, in order to make clean water available for all,” said George Owuor, Head of Government Relations P&G East Africa.
The program issues P&G Purifier of Water sachets, a low-cost powdered technology in a packet that is designed to purify heavily contaminated drinking water and get it to WHO standards for safe drinking water.
The CSDW program currently runs in several counties including: Machakos, Kajiado, Taita Taveta, Narok, Kisumu, Isiolo, Marsarbit, Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, Samburu, Lakipia, Muranga, Homa Bay and Makueni.
The Transformation of Water P&G invested over Sh300 million during the screening of their Transformation of Water documentary in Kisumu County.
The documentary, produced in conjunction with National Geographic, vividly tells the story of communities that lack access to clean drinking water as well as the progress that has been made by the Government and private sector in addressing this need.

Manu’a Fetineia’i and her family of Falevao have never had access to clean drinking water for over 20 years.
“I have lived for more than 20 years and we have never had any access to clean water, the water that we receive is not treated meaning it is not safe to drink.” “Water is the most important necessity of life; it has so many various uses, firstly to quench our thirst.” “But we have to boil the water first before we consume it, so we will not be sick,” she said.
Currently, the family has access to water—but not necessarily clean drinking water—and they are further challenged during the rainy season.
The 25-year-old says: “With the heavy rainfall, the water we get is very dirty, sometimes the water is disconnected, and we have no choice but to use buckets to store water from the rain.
Our family needs a water tank so it will be easier to store water for various purposes.” “We need water for cooking our daily meals, washing dishes and clothes, for bathing and also for our toilet.
“Our home is not built to withstand cyclones; I worry about my grandmother and children the most if something were to happen.
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Natural Resources Defense Council asks federal judge to force the city to immediately give water filters to East Ward residents Tests have shown elevated levels of lead in Newark homes once the water goes through old pipes.
The city sent out no public alerts, instead insisting for months that its water was safe to drink.
“At that point, the city should have started this filter distribution program, at a minimum, and alerted people, and been forthcoming about the problem of lead in the tap water,” said Mae Wu, senior staff attorney for the NRDC.
The city distributed filters to parts of the city in October when it got results of that earlier testing and insists it did the right thing.
At the time, the mayor said, “When you make a statement that the drinking water is not safe, it is yelling fire in a crowded room, and is in fact an incorrect statement.
The drinking water is safe.
There are parts of the city that do not need filters.” On Friday the NRDC asked a federal judge to force the city to immediately give the same water filters to residents of the East Ward.
“It’s a question of health and safety.
It’s a question of making sure that their residents have access to clean and safe water,” said Wu.
The NRDC and the city will square off over the issue in federal court Tuesday.

Much of Okaloosa County’s water and sewer infrastructure is decades old but in better shape compared to many other parts of the United States, says county Water and Sewer Department Director Jeff Littrell.
“A lot more of the system is from the ’70s,” said Littrell, who has worked for the county for 21 years.
Littrell said the county has been relining manholes, sometimes more than once, during the entire 21 years that he has worked for the county.
Pump it The county has 150 sewer pump stations, which work like a relay system to send wastewater to treatment plants.
The state’s wastewater infrastructure received a C, its drinking water infrastructure received a C+ and its stormwater infrastructure received a D. The report states that while there are more than 3,700 wastewater treatment facilities in Florida, one-third of the population is still served by septic tanks that rely on individuals to maintain and operate.
According to the state Department of Health, there are about 2.6 million septic tanks in Florida.
Why don’t we build stormwater systems to address all of our needs?
“Stormwater runoff from the woods can contain high fecal coliform just from animals.
“If you don’t have rain, you don’t have runoff and you’re not going to have water quality issues.” Water woes in Walton Besides diminishing the quality of water, stormwater runoff causes a number of other types of problems.
Over time, we get that erosion by the walkover and the dune system.” The county is waiting to receive a permit from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection “to allow our stormwater system to treat stormwater off of 30A,” he said.

The City of Monroe’s treatment facility has the real-time monitoring equipment, which was first installed in 2012, said Barry S. LaRoy, director of water and wastewater for the city.
The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments said it has completed updates for real-time water quality monitoring equipment at 14 water treatment facilities across the state.
The project was funded through a $375,000 grant from the Governor’s Infrastructure Fund.
The City of Monroe’s treatment facility has the real-time monitoring equipment, which was first installed in 2012, said Barry S. LaRoy, director of water and wastewater for the city.
LaRoy said the city uses the equipment as an early warning system.
The Huron-to-Erie Corridor is the drinking water source for more than 3 million people.
It contains 14 water treatment facilities owned by 12 local communities and the Great Lakes Water Authority.
Plans will be able to access each other’s results through an online network connecting the equipment, SEMCOG said.
LaRoy said the system helped the city earlier this summer detect a Lake Erie algal bloom that came close to the city’s water intake and make adjustments to the treatment process for the water.
The monitoring project was first implemented in the early 2000s and this update makes the equipment more accessible and easier to maintain and use.

Provinces such as Midlands, parts of Mashonaland and Manicaland have abundant water resources, while the Matabeleland region, the south-western parts of Masvingo province as well as areas along the Zambezi Valley suffer chronic shortages, with erratic rainfall.
Matende said most women and children in their village carry the burden of fetching water while men engage in other duties.
He confirmed that in most cases, women and children carry the responsibility of digging these wells and fetching water.
While much has been done to ameliorate water supply in urban areas, little has been done to increase access to safe water for rural communities.
Seventy-five percent of those lacking access live in rural areas and the majority of them are women and children.
In the wake of such water challenges, the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) last month commissioned a $38 000 water pipeline project in Chiwenga ward 24 in Muzarabani.
More than 40% of the population in Muzarabani district without access to safe water is made up of women and children.
Infectious diarrhoea is mainly responsible for the burden caused by water-borne and water-washed diseases.
“Improving access to safe water and basic sanitation services can be the best preventive intervention strategies to reduce diarrhoea.
Unicef in collaboration with the donor community is working on projects to improve access to safe water in both urban and rural communities.

Water scarcity and pollution are one of the biggest environmental problems before humanity today.
Part of the global crusade to fight water pollution are Haaziq Kazi and Gitanjali Rao, two young inventors who have come up with innovative new solutions to detect lead contamination and take care of ocean waste, respectively.
The two were in Mumbai to present their inventions at the TEDxGateway conference, held on 2 December.
“So I took a step back and looked at the big problem, that not many people know that what they’re drinking contains lead.
So I came up with the idea of creating an easy-to-use device to detect lead in water.” Called Tethys, after the Titan goddess of fresh water, Rao’s device uses carbon nanotube sensors to detect lead contamination, and informs you of the results almost instantly through a custom app.
Developed with the help of research specialist Kathleen Shafer at 3M, a US-based corporation operating in the fields of industry, health care, and consumer goods, and Selene Hernandez-Ruiz, water quality lab manager at Denver Water, Rao has funded her research with help from The Female Quotient, a female-owned business committed to advancing equality in the workplace through collaboration, as well as with the $50,000 (around ₹35 lakh) that she has won in cash prizes over the last year and a half.
“We’re on track for it to cost ₹300 in bulk, with the cartridges costing around ₹10,” she says.
“The device currently only detects lead but the technology can be adapted to detect any other contaminants in water.” Pune-based Kazi, 12, was inspired to create ERVIS—a ship that aims to suck waste floating on the ocean surface—after watching a documentary on the amount of plastic waste in the ocean.
“Then the folks at TED-Ed in New York called me to present my idea, so I made a more feasible and hydrodynamic model for that.” Kazi has been working with designers and engineers to create a testing prototype of the ship, with the project being funded by his father.
“I want to make ERVIS a platform where like-minded innovative people can come and contribute,” he says.