Polluted Water Popsicles: Faux Frozen Treats Highlight Taiwan’s Water Pollution Problemby Kate Sierzputowski on June 7, 2017.
Focused on environmental change rather than flavor, art students Hung I-chen, Guo Yi-hui, and Cheng Yu-ti from the National Taiwan University of the Arts concocted a line of “frozen treats” titled Polluted Water Popsicles.
The group collected polluted water from 100 locations in Taiwan, first freezing the collected sewage samples and then preserving their creations in polyester resin.
At first glance the visually pleasing treats seem to imitate the aesthetic of recent craft and artisanal food trends.
However on closed inspection you can identify the trash contained within each mold—bits of plastic, bottle caps, and wrappers lying within the popsicles’ murky waters.
The project is intended to spread awareness about water pollution and its deep effect on our world’s population.
The 100 pieces, which also included designed wrappers, was nominated for the Young Pin Design Award and featured in the New Generation of Design Exhibition this May at the Taipei World Trade Center.
You can view more of the creatively designed inedible works in the video below.
More information about the project can be found on the group’s Facebook.
(via Mashable and Quartz)

Essay on air pollution.
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The minimum wage will be increased in Alaska Ontario workers are struggling to get by working 2 or 3 low paying jobs.
The minimum wage is the minimum hourly wage an employer can pay an employee for work.
Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour Increasing the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers.
Tied to this is the question of what effect a higher minimum wage has on The minimum wage is a critical labor standard meant to ensure a fair wage for this country’s lowest paid workers.
In this I am in An increase in the minimum wage tends to have a “ripple effect” on other workers earning wages near that threshold.
Comment: If minimum wage is raised too high then you run the risk of inflation, if it is too low or not set at all then you begin to increase economic disparity The Minimum Fair Wage Law and Regulations address the payment of the basic minimum wage, the minimum wage for tipped employees, and more.

National Mission for Clean Ganga Approves Sewage Treatment Infrastructure Projects To Curb Water Pollution.
100% sewage treatment facility for Haridwar, Rishikesh, Vrindavan, Varanasi New Delhi: The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has approved projects worth R 1,917 crore for creating sewage treatment infrastructure in the river’s four basin states aiming to curb pollution of its water there.
The projects concerned, to be implemented under Centre’s ‘Namami Gange’ programme, were given a nod during the third meeting of the NMCG’s executive committee, the Union Water Resources Ministry said in a statement.
Among the projects approved include one aimed at intercepting, diverting and treating sewage in Allahabad’s Naini, Phaphamau and Jhunsi sewerage zones at an estimated cost of R 767.59 crore.
The NMCG cleared the R 744-crore projects including a 60-MLD STP and laying of sewerage lines in Pahari zone in Bihar’s Patna.
Patna will now have a sewage treatment capacity of 200 MLD once the projects sanctioned are functional.
“With this, all planned projects in Delhi have been approved,” the Ministry said.
Projects worth R 4,100 crore approved by National Mission for Clean Ganga in last 3 months.
The authority has until now approved projects costing over R 4,100 crore during the last three months in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Delhi.
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Despite Many Challenges, Grassfed Beef Could Go Mainstream.
And the news is good: according to “Back to Grass,” despite major obstacles, there is serious potential to grow grassfed systems to a size that could compete with the grain-fed feedlot system that currently produces the vast majority of U.S. beef.
On a panel on consumer trends, Maple Hill Creamery owner Tim Joseph said research his company conducted showed that consumers often thought their organic meat came from cows grazing only on grass, and once they learned that organically raised cows can still eat a diet of corn and soy, they were often driven to buy grassfed instead.
“I think we’re at a tipping point,” said Urvashi Rangan, a sustainable food systems consultant who’s been working with leaders in the industry to develop a consensus around grassfed labeling.
Rangan compared the current status of grassfed to where organic was 20 years ago, when the market had not yet developed to begin to meet consumer demand for healthier foods.
Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand Though consumer demand is high, the way it is currently being met is problematic for many American farmers.
For those not selling directly to consumers, there is also no streamlined distribution system for their meat compared to conventional beef production.
Currently, there are very few U.S. grassfed farms finishing more than 5,000 animals per year.
“Could we raise all of the animals in the U.S. now on grass?
Despite their optimistic models, the report authors agree, writing that it’s unrealistic “to expect grassfed beef to replace conventional feedlot beef any time soon given the amount of resources invested in the current beef system.” Instead, they present their work as an argument detailing ways in which the many challenges might be met gradually, to slowly transform the American landscape back to grazed grassland, for the sake of farmers, animals, eaters, and the planet.

An informational meeting about water pollution in Washington County was swamped with questions for state officials Tuesday evening. Another meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. “I don’t like it,” said Bridget Shore, holding her baby boy at the Oak-Land Junior High School meeting in Lake Elmo. “There are a lot of young families around here.” A group of about 70 people gathered to learn about chemicals in their water that were manufactured by the 3M Co. Officials have said that the chemicals are particularly worrisome for fetuses, babies and breast-feeing mothers. Traces of the chemicals — called perfluorochemicals, or PFCs — were discovered in the drinking water of about 65,000 Washington County residents in 2004. The chemicals apparently had leached into the water from waste dumps, where the company disposed of the chemicals, ending in the 1970s. The meeting was hosted by the state’s Department of Health and Pollution Control Agency. Until recently, the urgency of issue of PFCs in water had been fading. 3M stopped making the chemicals in 2002, and since then the levels in fish, river water and people…

Contaminated water in Airway Heights may not affect the housing market.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. – Home sales in the Spokane area are up more than nine percent.
Airway Heights homeowners, Ben and Richelle Gier, put their house on the market Tuesday.
The homeowners say they don’t expect any problems selling.
@KREM2 pic.twitter.com/vbeZXEZAfG — Amanda Roley (@KREMAmandaRoley) June 6, 2017 "We both knew that eventually the water situation would be taken care of,” Ben said.
We’re still looking for lots of inventory to put on the market,” Robel said.
“Buyers are having maybe a bit tougher time, but there’s great homes out there, and the market is doing great."
As the Gier’s begin to show their home, they will have to disclose that their water is contaminated.
While the housing market in Airway Heights doesn’t appear to be significantly affected by the water contamination, a realtor with Windermere Real Estate, Stephanie Peterson, said her one listing in Airway Heights has done fewer showings lately because of the contamination.
However, she also said they should take advantage of this opportunity of not having to deal with competing bids.

VERIFY: Is the Airway Heights water contamination increasing water bills?.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. – Several residents in Airway Heights reported water bills with much higher charges than usual.
Kevin Anderson with the City of Airway Heights said there have been no adjustments to water rates due to the recent PFOS/PFOA contamination.
Additionally, City Manager Albert Tripp said the most recent billing cycle was from April 19 through May 18.
“If a particular water customer saw an unusually high bill, it would be due entirely to water usage,” Anderson said in an email.
Anderson said the majority of the time, high water usage and higher bills are caused by a customer’s own leaky plumbing.
In conclusion, it is verified that water contamination in Airway Heights is not causing an increase in water bills.
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Threats to underground water contamination.
There is an increase in borehole drilling and digging of wells in urban areas, especially in new residential areas because of unavailability of reticulated water services.In addition, there are no sewer services in these areas, construction of septic tanks evades local authorities’ by laws.
Consequently, there is underground water contamination in some of the boreholes and wells.
In this regard, it is important for every household to know the quality of water they are drinking and using, to avoid adverse health effects.
This is forcing people to construct their own septic tanks, latrines, boreholes and deep wells.
The main form of contamination by septic tanks and latrines is of bacterial nature e.g. faecal coliform.
Sewage bursts Sewage pipe bursts are a threat to underground water quality.
In Harare, most of the sprouting new residential areas are built on wetlands and these wetlands have been purifying water for years.
In some cases the geological environment is linked to chronic diseases such as renal failure due to the presence of lethal doses of metals.
Examples of different water qualities caused by geological rock structure are: hardness of water, high salinity, high fluoride levels which causes rusty teeth, high levels of metals.

But due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, every year millions of people, most of them children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Critical water resources Globally, by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water.
At least 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water that is fecally contaminated.
Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source has increased from 76 percent to 91 percent, but water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the global population and it is projected to rise.
As many as 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets.
First, it is important to have access to safe drinking water: In rural areas of Nepal, people spend hours fetching drinking water.
So SDG 6 is important to Nepal to achieve national health goals.
In Nepal, many plans and policies are discussed and developed, but they have not been implemented.
Even when developmental plans are implemented, they are not monitored.
If SDG 6 is well implemented, water pollution-related issues will also be mitigated.

[ Over Two Hundred Kick Off Planning to Reduce Water Pollution in Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Counties ].
More than 200 Pennsylvanians representing local governments, the farming community, and other stakeholders gathered today to share ideas for a plan to best achieve federally mandated water pollution reductions in the state’s 43 counties in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and improve the environment and economy for all.
“Clean water is essential to Pennsylvanians’ quality of life,” said DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell.
All of this depends on clean water sources.” To succeed, the plan must be locally implementable, said McDonnell, accounting for economic realities as well as environmental benefits of clean local waters.
“The 2016 survey tracked and quantified impressive on-farm measures taken at the farmers’ own expense,” he added.
Having trees and other vegetation on a river bank, for example, plays a key role in keeping sediment out of the water.
“When land is healthy, water is healthy,” Dunn said, noting that DCNR is working on developing public outreach in this area.
Participants represented township, city, and county governments; the agriculture community; conservation districts; river basin commissions; watershed associations; conservancies; businesses; colleges; and many other entities.
For anyone who couldn’t attend in person, a public online comment period is open through July 7 on DEP eComments.
Pennsylvania is mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment levels in waters in its Bay watershed counties by 2025.