A Boil Water Advisory remains in place for over two dozen residences in Red Deer’s Sunnybrook neighbourhood. The advisory was issued January 29 but the reason for it is not currently mentioned on the city’s…

A boil water advisory that affected some Tega Cay residents and businesses after a water main break has been lifted. Utility crews on Tuesday were able to isolate a water main break at S.C. 160 and Stonecrest Boulevard, and restore service by about 10 p.m. “The customers affected the most by this break were businesses in Stonecrest and in Graystone,” said Charlie Funderburk, city manager. However, residents were asked Wednesday morning to conserve as much water as possible. A boil water advisory was in effect for any customers who lost service. In instances like the one in Tega Cay, the state…

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. – Tap water is no longer unsafe to drink for those living in the Snoqualmie Pass area. A boil water advisory for the area has been lifted as of February 1 after a system leak likely caused water contamination, according to county officials. Those living in the…

BELMONT, N.C. – Thursday marks the 1,000th day that some residents near coal ash sites have been drinking bottled water.
Protesters stacked bottled water as high as they could outside Duke Energy headquarters Thursday.
In 2015, Duke Energy started providing bottled water to residents near coal ash sites after the state sent letters warning them not to drink their well water.
Those letters were eventually rescinded, but Duke Energy continued to send water to comply with a state law that mandates that the company provides a new drinking water supply to some residents.
"There is no impact from coal ash basins, but we want to take the issue off the table once and for all, making an investment that benefits all of our customers,” Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said.
“Folks are getting hooked up to existing lines.
We’re building new lines,” Sheehan said.
Duke Energy said some residents have been unresponsive when questioned about these new drinking water supplies.
The law requires Duke Energy to complete the work by October of 2018.
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On Wednesday, roughly two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck, just 50 percent of Puerto Rico had access to drinking water and only 5.4 percent had electricity. That information was clearly displayed on Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) website on disaster relief efforts in the U.S. territory.
FEMA explained to the Post that the information is still available in Spanish on a website maintained by the Puerto Rican government, www.status.pr. However, there was no comment about why the information was deleted from the main FEMA page.
Ricardo Rosselló’s office, FEMA spokesman William Booher said.
One subsection, which previously reported on electricity access, titled "Power Restoration and Fuel Impacts" was removed entirely. Other bullet points, including one reporting on water access, and a schematic titled "LOGISTICS SNAPSHOT for HURRICANE MARIA" were also removed.
President Trump and his administration have received intense criticism over his handling of the crisis in Puerto Rico as recovery efforts moves at a "glacial pace."

If you go to FEMA’s website detailing the federal response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, you’ll probably come away thinking that Puerto Ricans are in good hands and the relief effort is going well.
Of course, that’s because they removed a pair of noteworthy statistics that might damage that perception.
The Washington Post reported today that FEMA removed statistics about the availability of drinking water and electricity in Puerto Rico from its website.
More than 30 miles of roadway have been cleared, up from about 20 miles earlier in the week. About 65 percent of grocery stores have reopened, along with nearly all hospitals and dialysis centers. And 64 percent of wastewater treatment plants are working on generator power.
The Spanish-language site maintained by the office of the Puerto Rican governor, Ricardo Roselló, shows that just over half of the island has access to clean drinking water, and only ten percent of it has access to electricity at the time of this writing. These statistics show that recovery efforts in Puerto Rico aren’t all sunshine and rainbows—significant progress hasn’t even been made on getting Puerto Rican citizens clean water.
Trump has, in fact, made a concerted effort to blame Puerto Rico itself for the slowness of the recovery, pointing the finger at everything from their outdated power grid to the attitude of the people themselves.

New maps, new website highlight drought effects on agriculture.
Maps highlighting the effects of drought on six agricultural commodities across the continental U.S. became available in late May on a website hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The maps are a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Economist and the drought center.
The maps, produced at the drought center in cooperation with the USDA World Agriculture Outlook Board and OCE meteorologists, are based on the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor and show the locations and percentages of drought-affected areas that produce crops or livestock.
They are released Thursdays and can be found at agindrought.unl.edu.
In addition to the maps, the website offers data tables, time series graphs and animations.
In the near future, the partners will make available six field crop maps, one each for corn, cotton, soybeans, winter wheat, spring wheat and durum wheat.
The result highlights agricultural areas affected by any level of drought.
The U.S. Drought Monitor, produced weekly since 1999, is a collaborative effort among federal and academic partners, including the drought center, USDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The drought center also hosts the monitor: droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

World Bank, UN-Water and Industry Promote Knowledge Sharing on Sustainable Water.
31 May 2017: The World Bank and the CEO Water Mandate have announced initiatives focused on increasing information, dialogue and knowledge sharing on sustainable water projects, while the 89th National Construction Industry Meeting in Brasilia, Brazil discussed water scarcity in the context of climate change.
Multi-stakeholder dialogues and technical assistance are part of this effort.
On 15 May, UN-Water announced the launch of the revamped ‘Water Action Hub’ by the CEO Water Mandate.
The site has been reorganized so that users can easily identify projects and organizations that are working on specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Besides the targets under SDG 6 on clean water and sanitation, water-related targets under other SDGs are also highlighted, including those on disaster management (target 11.5), sustainable production (target 12.4) and climate resilience and adaptation (target 13.1).
The UN Global Compact established the CEO Water Mandate in 2007 as a public-private initiative to mobilize business leaders to become good stewards of water.
From 24-26 May, the Brazilian Construction Industry Chamber and the Federal District’s Construction Industry Union organized the 89th National Construction Industry Meeting in Brasilia, Brazil.
During the debate, the Forum’s consultant Glauko Kimura noted “the importance of cooperation among cities to change the water management framework in Brazil and to promote economic and sustainable growth,” warning also of the need to use water efficiently in the construction industry.
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Website addresses drinking water crisis.
The website, SafeWaterForCA.org, will also be advertised on the radio around the state in areas with high numbers of contaminated water systems.
“Contaminated drinking water is an issue that matters to everyone,” Wade Crowfoot of the Water Foundation said.
“Access to safe and affordable drinking water is a human right and we need to be innovative and aggressive in finding solutions.
Some of these families have been without clean water for over a decade.
That is not acceptable.” As many as one million Californians are exposed to unsafe, contaminated drinking water in their homes, schools and businesses.
SafeWaterForCA.org is an educational campaign bringing awareness to this drinking water crisis.
The website includes powerful testimony from individuals who have lived or are living with contaminated water, news articles, facts surrounding the drinking water crisis and polling information commissioned by the Water Foundation in January.
The Water Foundation is a nonprofit public foundation that is transforming how water is managed so communities and natural places thrive.
It is the only grantmaking foundation entirely focused on improving the way water is used and managed in the American West.

Keep usable items out of the trash and obtain quality items without buying new with the Hennepin County Choose to Reuse site (http://www.hennepin.us/choosetoreuse).
Choosing to reuse helps us live sustainably by reducing waste, saving natural resources, conserving energy, preventing pollution, and saving money.
The main feature of the Choose to Reuse site is a tool that directs you to the best reuse businesses for your needs.
This is where the Choose to Reuse website comes in to help.
The site can help you with common searches, such as where to buy quality used clothes near you.
Lastly, the site covers all 145 zip codes in Hennepin County, so you’ll be able to find information whether you live in Minneapolis or Independence.
There are benefits of reducing and reusing for our environment, in our communities and our homes.
The process of making new items uses natural resources and raw materials, which can harm the environment for future generations.
Reuse retailers provide residents the option to save money while still getting quality items, instead, of buying new items at a much higher price.
All of these are important reasons to check out the new Choose to Reuse website and start taking action to reuse today.