In addition, the district plans to replace faucets and fountains that are more than 30 years old and do not meet “lead-free” requirements under the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1986.
New schools, those not currently in use will not be a part of this process.
Neither will schools that are housed on campuses owned and operated by local community colleges or universities.
Related: Parents Get Answers on High Lead Levels in Water at Southeast Middle In Guilford Co. Water that is stagnant can absorb lead or other materials from the plumbing system.
At Allen Jay Elementary, Frazier Elementary and Southeast Middle, 30-year-old faucets and drinking fountains used for water consumption and food preparation have already been replaced.
Once retests show the remediation is effective, school principals may then be advised they can stop the current precautionary measure of flushing water on a daily basis.
The goal is to complete all testing prior to the start of next school year.
“We’ll continue to improve the process as we move forward through this next phase, and will have a better handle on district-wide costs once we get the first wave of more extensive test results back,” said Scott McCully, chief operations officer.
Test results will be shared as soon as possible with employees, parents and the public.
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For 10 years, some residents in Denmark, South Carolina, have been suspicious of the rust-colored water coming from their taps.
They’ve been collecting samples in jars and using bottled or spring water, even though the local and state government assured them it was safe.
But through a Freedom of Information Act request and a one-year investigation, CNN has found new information that may cast doubts on those assurances.
The state government was adding a substance to one of the city’s four wells, trying to regulate naturally occurring iron bacteria that can leave red stains or rust-like deposits in the water.
The substance, known as HaloSan, was not approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency to disinfect drinking water.
CNN was told by the state that it has been adding HaloSan to the water in Denmark since 2008.
A spokesman for South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control told CNN in an email that it believed HaloSan was EPA-approved for drinking water based on the way the system was "advertised."
An EPA risk assessment from 2007 shows that HaloSan can be a "significant eye and skin irritant."
The EPA told CNN that HaloSan is not a registered pesticide product and has not been reviewed by EPA’s pesticide program.
But Edwards says he couldn’t let go of a nagging feeling that there was something missing, especially after finding red flags, like a 2010 local newspaper story where a city official declared the water had safe lead levels nine days before the testing was conducted.

Two years ago in North Dakota, after months of protest by thousands of indigenous and environmental activists, pipeline opponents celebrated when the Obama administration denied a key permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
"It turned out to be a massive gathering — a world-wide gathering," recalls current Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council Chairman Mike Faith.
I haven’t really left," laughs Cowboy.
He pleaded guilty to civil disorder charges.
Lawsuits continue Two years later, the legal system in North Dakota is still busy processing the people arrested during the anti-DAPL protests.
And in yet another case, tribal members and others filed suit over the shutdown of a local highway near the protests for five months.
But The Bismarck Tribune reported the tribe suffered a $6 million budget shortfall, largely because less money was coming in from the casino.
"People weren’t happy about what was going on and the way protesters were treating other people," Keller says.
Schulz says the protests cost his county nearly $40 million for police, fire, including repairing damaged infrastructure, cleaning-up protest camps and prosecutions.
North Dakota’s oil production is growing so fast the state likely will run out of pipeline capacity next year, which is one reason Energy Transfer recently announced it plans to expand its Dakota Access Pipeline so that it can transport even more oil.

CHICAGO — Toxic waste contaminates water sources near all but two of the coal-fired power plants in Illinois, according to a new analysis based largely on testing conducted by energy companies.
Most of the waste in Illinois has been mixed with water and pumped into unlined pits, where testing shows harmful levels of arsenic, chromium, lead and other heavy metals are steadily oozing through the ground toward lakes and rivers, including the state’s only national scenic river.
Another is a Joliet quarry where ComEd and other companies dumped coal ash until NRG overhauled a nearby coal plant in 2016 to burn natural gas.
Ten of the sites pose a danger to the drinking water supplies of nearby communities, according to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, including the Joliet dump and ash pits surrounding another NRG coal plant along the Des Plaines River in Romeoville.
Nonprofit groups behind the new report, including the Environmental Integrity Project and the Sierra Club, are urging Democrat J.B. Pritzker, the state’s next governor, to require coal plant owners to stop polluting the state’s protected waters and to set aside money to clean up their pits of hazardous coal ash.
Former Democratic Gov.
In August, a key federal appeals court handed down a scathing ruling that regulations adopted during the Obama administration weren’t tough enough and did nothing to prevent leaks at scores of ash pits near shuttered coal plants.
But the Trump administration is pushing to replace the Obama-era regulations with an even weaker set of requirements.
Most of the coal plants in Illinois are owned by two companies, New Jersey-based NRG and Houston-based Vistra Energy.
Vistra-owned sites include unlined pits in the floodplain of the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River, the state’s only national scenic river.

"Water treatment systems that remove CECs and common contaminants from wastewater and drinking water are urgently needed."
Three of the prototypes will be used to treat wastewater, and the other three will treat drinking water.
After preliminary tests to make sure they are fit for purpose and safe for use, a large-scale field study (~750 households, 18-month duration) will take place in communities in rural Rajasthan who do not have access to safe drinking water.
This is a continuation of the previously EU funded WATERSPOUTT project in which Professor McGuigan developed 20L transparent PET jerrycans which were tested in Tigray in Northern Ethiopia.
"The EU and Indian funding will be instrumental in the success of this programme, and RCSI is proud to take part in a collaborative effort to make the world healthier."
RCSI will coordinate the project with a consortium of 18 Partners, 12 from the EU (three Irish) and six from India.
The consortium will work closely with the communities at the field sites and carry out water quality analyses, health and social impact assessments.
Additionally, the consortium will advocate for safe reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation and preservation of drinking water sources.
### RCSI is ranked among the top 250 (top 2%) of universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2019) and its research is ranked first in Ireland for citations.
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The second part discusses the impacts on health, society and the environment, as well as highlighting actions people are taking throughout the U.S. to decrease the effects of climate change 9NEWS Medical Expert Dr. Comilla Sasson answers some common questions.
QUESTION: What is climate change?
The Earth’s temperature has risen by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, with most of the earth’s warming occurring in the last 35 years.
QUESTION: What role does climate change play in the extremes we are seeing, with hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, and extreme flooding?
QUESTION: How does the rise in temperature impact our health?
• Decrease in Air Quality- This is a result of higher levels of pollutants in the air, as well as ozone levels being impacted.
• Increase in Allergens- With the change in air quality and changing drought versus rainfall, the amount of dust, pollen and mold in the air is changing and causing a worsening of seasonal allergies.
QUESTION: There is also a rise in diseases that can be spread because of changes in our climate.
• Change in Illnesses Spread by Mosquitoes, Ticks and other Vectors- As the weather patterns change and we see warmer temperatures and more extremes in rainfall, we are going to see more illnesses spread by ticks and mosquitos like West Nile, Zika, Lyme Disease.
ANSWER: States are doing more to help with extremes of weather conditions (e.g. cooling areas during heat waves), preparing for wildfires, climate-proofing health care system infrastructure (e.g. making sure hospitals are prepared for hurricanes), monitoring the water supply especially during drought seasons, and actively watching for disease outbreaks.

The UK will provide vital food, shelter and clean water to Afghans affected by one of the worst droughts the country has ever faced, Penny Mordaunt announces.
The UK will provide vital food, shelter and clean water to Afghans affected by one of the worst droughts the country has ever faced, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced today (Monday 26 November).
Speaking ahead of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan (Tuesday 27 November), International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said: " This deadly drought is already affecting millions of Afghans, many of whom have had to leave their homes and livelihoods in desperate search of basic necessities. "
UK aid will provide life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of Afghans, including food, clean water, and tents. "
Today’s package, provided by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), will: Provide tents and urgent relief items for up to 260,000 people who have fled their homes ahead of a bitter severe winter Provide 602,660 people with food or cash transfers to buy essential items, with a monthly ration of special nutritious food to prevent malnutrition in young children for every household Provide drought affected people with access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation so they can remain in their homes over winter.
The UK is the second largest humanitarian donor in Afghanistan.
UK aid is helping to build a more stable, prosperous country for all Afghans.
This brings DFID’s total spend on the humanitarian response in Afghanistan this year to £67 million.
£12.5 million will be given to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) to provide immediate shelter and relief items to 260,000 people who have fled their homes, as well as access to healthcare, nutritious food, clean water and sanitation for thousands of Afghan families this winter.
General media queries Email mediateam@dfid.gov.uk Telephone 020 7023 0600

For a long time in her community, they’ve had no access to clean water.
“We buy water in this place because the water we have is not clean.
“There is no money in the business because some residents have water in their houses.
I sell to those who are having a tough time getting access to clean water.
The facts show that Nigeria may likely not achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 6 which stipulates that countries must achieve universal and equitable access to potable water for all, and access to adequate sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030.
Some have boreholes and they only buy from us when their machines are bad,” he told BDSUNDAY.
“A lot of people drink my water, if they don’t have pure water (sachet water)” he said, sensing it is a big deal in a community that lacks clean water.
At the entrance of the community, one Meruwa was spotted with his garuwa, looking for water as usual, and found where to buy.
If the pressure can be okay, then there won’t be water problem in all these communities.
“They buy pure water to drink”, he said, complaining also that some people within the community sell water that is got from the government.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) reinforced this notion when it identified environmental factors and resource scarcity as important features of the national security landscape.
Environmental security refers to a broad range of security issues exacerbated by environmental factors and suggests that environmental stress has the potential to destabilize states and trigger violent conflict (Galgano and Krakowka 2011).
This chapter suggests that continued peaceful resolution of interstate water conflicts is inconsistent with the realities of the emerging national security landscape.
First, climate change is already affecting the distribution of water in many critical water basins.
These factors combine to intensify latent ethnic/religious conflicts and decades of distrust and territorial disputes that persist throughout the region.
Barnett (2004) developed a national security paradigm that attempted to incorporate emerging post–Cold War dynamic — that is, economic competition, environmental stress and failing states.
Thus, water is fast becoming one of the seminal environmental security factors of the emergent national security landscape because it is an essential resource for which there is no substitute (Butts 1997).
Only 0.036 percent of the world’s supply is renewable freshwater; and by 2025, some three billion people (about 40 percent of the global population) will live in regions that are unable to provide sufficient freshwater to meet basic human needs.
However, the problem that looms is that we expect global population to approach nine billion by 2050, and to keep pace, economic output will have to quintuple, which will place greater demands on global freshwater resources (HomerDixon 1999).
Consequently, water may become an environmental tipping point that triggers violent conflict as greater economic aspirations and human population accelerates demands on the freshwater supply, while at the same time climate change makes supply more uncertain (Gleick 1993).

RALEIGH, NC (WECT) – Leaders at Cape Fear Public Utility Authority will review a proposed agreement reached between the NC Department of Environmental Quality, Cape Fear River Watch and Chemours over the company’s discharge of GenX and other compounds into the water supply.
The utility also plans to comment to NCDEQ regarding the proposed consent order announced this week.
The full release from CFPUA says: "Cape Fear Public Utility Authority was not part of any negotiation or discussion related to the draft consent order that NCDEQ released Wednesday.
While the draft document appears to address some important issues surrounding future PFAS contamination, it does not appear to consider or address how downstream utilities and their customers have been affected and the possible lingering effects of the broad spectrum of PFAS contamination.
We have not received a response from NCDEQ concerning our November 13 email transmitting a report by UNCW researchers describing additional PFAS compounds they identified in the Cape Fear River.
The proposed consent order would require Chemours to provide permanent drinking water for residents with water wells that have GenX levels above 140 parts per trillion and pay a $12 million civil penalty.
By Dec. 31, 2019, install a thermal oxidizer to control all PFAS from multiple process streams, demonstrate PFAS reductions at an effectiveness of 99.99 percent efficiency and a 99 percent reduction facility-wide for GenX emissions compared to the 2017 baseline level.
Submit and implement a plan for sampling all process and non-process wastewater and stormwater streams to identify any additional PFAS.
Notify and coordinate with downstream public water utilities when an event at the facility has the potential to cause a discharge of GenX compounds into the Cape Fear River above the health goal of 140 parts per trillion.
"This is the largest fine ever by DEQ: 99% reduction in emissions, health study funded by Chemours, safe water for people around the plant whose wells are spoiled, groundwater remediation and more.” Public comments on the proposed order will be accepted until Dec. 21 and can be submitted electronically to comments.chemours@ncdenr.gov or mailed to Assistant Secretary’s office, RE: Chemours Public Comments, 1601 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1601.