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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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18.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean |
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
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18.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals. |
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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18.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. |
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities |
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. As a young Marine electronics |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this |
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
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18.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
|  CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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18.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. |
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After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean
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18.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, "NON-POTABLE WATER." |
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Will California Ban Fracking?
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18.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Efforts to put the brakes on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," took a step forward in California earlier this... |
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Will California Ban Fracking?
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Efforts to put the brakes on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," took a step forward in California earlier this... |
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Editorial: It's about safe water
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18.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Opinion |
| Editorial: It's about safe water |
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Yuck! What's in your pool water
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17.5.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized. |
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Fracking can be done safely, but will it be?
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17.5.2013 |
Terrorism |
| Fracking Can Be Done Safely, but Will It Be? ... |
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More Than Half Of Public Pools Contaminated By Poop Bacteria
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| There's a lot of grossness going on in public pools. A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that more than half of... |
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China: High and Dry
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17.5.2013 |
International Rivers News RSS Feed |
| By:
Leslie Hook
Date:
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Originally published in The Financial Times
Devastating water shortages are putting a brake on economic growth and stirring political discontent but Beijing's high-spending responses to the problem have triggered widespread criticism.
Wang Fuguo, a 63-year-old cotton farmer, does not know when his ancestors began tilling the land in the dusty village of Weijie.
But he is fairly sure he will be the last of his family to do so. "They've all fled," he says, looking out from his gate at the abandoned houses that line the village's only street.
The reason is simple. "There's just no water here," he says. "If you don't have water you can't survive." His household gets running water for one hour every five days, barely enough to feed a tiny patch of aubergines and supply his family and their dozen sheep.
In the face of China's rapid economic expansion and growing presence on the global stage, it is often forgotten that the ... |
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New study: fracking hasn't polluted Arkansas water
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17.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new study says natural gas drilling, or fracking, hasn't contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas but researchers say the geology there is more of a natural barrier to pollution than in other areas where drilling takes place. |
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New study: fracking hasn't polluted Arkansas water
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17.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| New study: fracking hasn't polluted Arkansas water |
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CDC: 3 Of 5 Pools Tested Positive For Fecal Contamination
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17.5.2013 |
WCCO: Local News |
 The Centers for Disease Control estimate that nearly 3 of 5 public swimming pools are contaminated with fecal matter. The figures from their tests of polls conducted during last summer's swim season showed about 58 percent of the samples tested positive for E. coli. |
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