Chemicals found in Fairchild wells not used for drinking water.
Five groundwater wells on Fairchild Air Force Base that are not used for drinking tested high for dangerous chemicals found in firefighting foam, prompting further tests of drinking water sources in the area.
Those findings were part of a water contamination test that has triggered a nationwide review.
The military is testing water at about 400 bases and found problems at more than three dozen, according to an analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News.
The Army has not begun, according to the news report.
The branches and the Pentagon say they are coordinating, but have varying responses on how many bases must be tested, and limited information about remediation timelines and cost.
The chemicals found at Fairchild during the water tests were from past use of fire suppression foam that contain perfluorinated compounds.
After those test results were reported in March, base officials began contacting nearby residents for permission to test their private wells.
“Once we’ve assured that you’re talking eight years to get yourself to a remediation solution.” Contamination has been found near 27 military bases in 16 states, according to the Air Force, Navy, and Army.
The Air Force, Navy, and Army say they have similar plans: First, they will sample bases where the foam, known as aqueous film-forming foam, may have been used, then assess whether remediation is needed.

Emerging crisis: In Toba Tek Singh, clean water a scarcity.
FAISALABAD: In Toba Tek Singh, the city of famous Sikh saint Teko Singh and a dry region within Punjab, fresh water is scarce and contaminated by industrial pollution.
During the past 24 years, however, the canals has dried up and excessive power load-shedding has aggravated the situation.
Even those, who are availing tap water facility, are getting contaminated water.” “The population of Toba Tek Singh comprises more than 2.7 million people.
The major source of drinking water in the district is underground water which is also used for irrigation purposes,” he added, “The water is unfit for human consumption because of being brackish and contaminated.”.
“It is playing havoc with the health and lives of people and also ruining the entire agriculture and wildlife sector of our district.” Rafique pointed out: “I have been raising the matter in the assembly since 2008 but I could not succeed in resolving the chronic issue of drinking water and provision of canal water to the farmers.” Former MNA and district Nazim of Toba Tek Singh Chaudhry Ashfaque told The Express Tribune, “In extremely hot and harsh weather conditions, the people of the district are running from pillar to post to acquire potable drinking water.” He added, “Those, who can afford, buy water from the markets.
He added majority of the population has been infected with waterborne diseases.
He said, “We are unable to drink water and use it for other purposes.” He maintained, “The people have no other option but to stand in a queue at water plants to fill cans that has affected our routine work.” A senior citizen Muhammad Ameen said over 75% people of Toba Tek Singh are forced to drink contaminated water.
He admitted that under the present setup, the municipal committees cannot meet the water demand of the district due to lack of resources.
Health risk Senior medical officer Dr Muhammad Anwar said waterborne diseases are increasing at an alarming rate in Toba Tek Singh.

People face hardships due to leakage in main pipeline.
Normal water supply could be restored from Thursday NEARLY half of the population, on Tuesday faced water scarcity due to discontinuation of water supply from Ramnagar Plant.
A large number of overhead tanks, which supplied potable water to nearly 40 wards of the city remained parched.
Residents of various affected areas complained that they did not receive potable water through tankers which was promised by Jabalpur Municipal Corporation (JMC).
A large number of residents from nearly 40 wards of the city faced water scarcity due to leakage in main water supply pipeline.
Residents could not get potable water on Tuesday morning.
Though the Water Department of JMC started repairing the work, but it would not be able to resume normal water supply on Wednesday as well.
The Water Department has started repairing work but it could complete the work in next one or two days.
Water Department has claimed that it had sent a large number of water tankers to various affected areas in the city and provided needed water to the residents.
Now, the fresh leakage in the pipeline would again trouble people for several days.

Talking toilets: Bill Gates uses 360 video to show how India is winning in its clean sanitation battle.
In India, a huge chunk of the population doesn’t have access to such clean toilets, instead using unsanitary ones or just doing their business out in the open.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming to change that with the Clean India campaign, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Bill Gates highlighted the program in his most recent Gates Notes blog post, complete with 360-degree video.
“What I love most about Clean India is that it identified a big problem, got everyone working on it, and is using measurement to show where things need to be done differently,” Gates wrote in the post.
“As the old saying goes, ‘What gets measured gets done.’ If you don’t set ambitious targets and chart your progress, you end up settling for business as usual — and in this case, business as usual would mean poor sanitation keeps killing more than half a million Indians every year.” The Clean India project is a good example of how massive public health initiatives can succeed.
Gates also writes that the project has a detailed plan to get that number to 100 percent by 2019, which would drastically improve public health across the country and perhaps even turn those unsafe toilets into places to make clean fertilizer.
Gates writes that making sanitary toilets widely available would drastically improve public health, make access to education easier for young girls and could even save the country almost $106 billion a year.
Now that’s a bold goal.
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder is no stranger to tackling the taboo subject of sanitation.
And in 2015, he sipped on a glass of drinking water made from human waste to prove a point about finding solutions.

Shorewood Under Water Boil Order for ‘At Least’ 48 Hours.
SHOREWOOD, WI — Shorewood residents are strongly urged to either boil water or use bottled water for drinking for at least 48 hours starting Tuesday, April 25, 2017, after maintenance projects caused a significant pressure drop across the village.
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, Shorewood Waterworks had an approximate 55% pressure loss in its water system due to Milwaukee Waterworks maintenance projects.
Village officials said when water pressure returns to your homes, it will spit air and also run cloudy.
The Wisconsin DNR requires the water utility to collect two water samples following a loss of water pressure and recommends that Shorewood residents not drink or use it for potable purposes until samples verify that it is safe.
Village officials say residents may use the water for washing and flushing when it comes back on, but not for drinking.
Continue to drink water you set aside, or buy bottled water, or boil your water for one minute and cool it before drinking it until we notify you the water tested "safe".
Shorewood officials anticipate this advisory to be in effect for a minimum of 48 hours.
If you have questions, please call Leeann Butschlick at 414-847-2650. image via shutterstock

Pali-Thane villagers compelled to use muddy borewell water for drinking.
Pali, which comprises 300 houses, is located some 11 kms from Valpoi town in Sattari taluka.
It is facing acute shortage of drinking water due to which the villagers are now forced to drink water which is not fit for consumption.
Another villager, Paryekar said that “the water which they get once a day for an hour is from the borewell and it is not clean and for last few weeks we have been getting muddy water.” A woman said that “due to water shortage and also over hygiene concern, the womenfolk have to go over long distances to get clean water.” An elder resident of the village said that in Pali there is only one borewell and that it was built by water supply department 10 years ago.
“Till now, the department has not cleaned it.
Hence, you can imagine the amount of waste that has been accumulated in it.
He said as pressure decreases the water does not reach houses on hilly area.
“We are installing a new water pipeline in Pali village and the work is in progress.
This will benefit the villagers immensely and the water supplied will also be clean.” However, Paste told this reporter that PWD will be monitoring the situation and increase the trips of water tankers.
He said that a joint meeting with sarpanch and panch members has been convened on May 3 to address their grievances.

Autoplay:XShorewood issues precautionary boil- bottled drinking water advisoryx SHOREWOOD — The Village of Shorewood Department of Public Works issued a precautionary boil advisory Tuesday after residents noticed little to no water pressure.
"Some of that impacted the delivery of water into our system, it impacted those pressures so the pressure dropped and that’s what triggered this," Butschlick said.
UW-Milwaukee campus officials put signs on bathrooms asking faculty and students to use bathrooms on lower floors where the water pressure was stronger.
Workers at Lake Bluff Dental in Shorewood also took extra precaution.
"I did go to the Metro Market up the street and bought distilled water," said lab technician Laury Veksler.
"We quickly swapped everything out and made sure patients weren’t ingesting or touching it."
Butschlick said the village will send water samples to a lab for testing, "Labs generally take 18 to 24 hours to process those types of samples so we expect to have an answer about Thursday morning hopefully," she said.
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Shorewood issues precautionary boil, bottled drinking water advisory.
Autoplay:x SHOREWOOD — Shorewood Utilities issued a precautionary boil and bottled drinking water advisory after its water system experienced a pressure loss Tuesday morning.
The system experienced about a 55 percent loss, officials say.
As water pressure returns, faucets "spit air and also run cloudy."
You may use the water for washing and flushing as normal during the advisory.
If you don’t have bottled water or other water set aside, you may drink tap water if you "boil your water for one minute and cool it before drinking it," the city says.
The advisory is expected to be in effect for at least two days.
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Failing Gaza: undrinkable water, no access to toilets and little hope on the horizon.
Palestinians in Gaza remember a time when almost everyone could drink clean water from the tap.
Now less than four percent of fresh water is drinkable and the surrounding sea is polluted by sewage.
Her home is not connected to a sewage system so the family relies on open, uncovered pits to collect sewage, which they empty themselves.
Gaza’s water and sanitation crisis is escalating dangerously, with clean water increasingly scarce and almost a third of households not connected to a sanitation system.
Less than 16% of items needed to construct vital water infrastructure are reaching Gaza Israel’s blockade of Gaza severely limits materials from entering, making it incredibly difficult to develop water and sanitation infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing population.
A project which could see the Amir family and other homes nearby connected to a sanitation system has been delayed due to essential equipment, such as water pipes and pumps, being until recently blocked from entering Gaza.
In the wake of the devastation in Gaza in 2014, the UN brokered an agreement – the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM) – between the Palestinian Authority and the Government of Israel, so construction materials could enter Gaza more easily.
Lack of funding and limited coordination have fatal consequences for families in Gaza: the international community must act Confronted with Israeli-imposed restrictions, even major donors are failing to facilitate the necessary equipment at the scale or speed needed to repair and develop Gaza’s deficient infrastructure.
The international community, including governments such as the UK, Germany and the Netherlands who fund the mechanism, must ensure that the security concerns of Israel do not violate the rights of civilians under occupation and therefore must immediately increase efforts to pressure Israel to allow the entry of materials.

Boil water advisory issued in Kalamazoo Township neighborhood.
KALAMAZOO, MI — A precautionary advisory is being issued for municipal drinking water customers living in a west section of Kalamazoo Township.
The city of Kalamazoo’s Department of Public Services announced Monday that it is repairing a water main break near the intersection of Kaywood Drive and Junedale Drive.
The affected area includes all of Kaywood Drive, all of Junedale Drive, all of Doncrest Drive, and the houses on Alamo Avenue on the north side of the intersection with Kaywood Drive.
This advisory is precautionary.
Initial sampling results will be available within 24 hours and the final set within 48 hours, according to a press release.
The city expects the advisory will be lifted within 72 hours.
A Boil Water Advisory warns residents their drinking water may be contaminated.
When a break occurs in a water main, or a complete loss of pressure in a significant part of the water system, there is the possibility for contaminants to enter into the water main while the repair is being completed.
Call (269) 373-5337 with any questions related to boiling tap water or general water quality questions or visit the City of Kalamazoo website at kalamazoocity.org.