Healthy Water Resources
Factsheets
- Health Effects of Lead Exposure
- WIFIA
- State Revolving Fund
- EPA Methods for Measuring Lead in Drinking Water
- Testing for Lead in Drinking Water
- Filters for Removing Lead in Drinking Water
Spanish Language Factsheets
- Efectos en La Salud de Niños por Exposición al Plomo
- Préstamos de Fondo Revolventes Estatal
- Los metodos presentes de la EPA
- Probar por el Plomo en Agua Potable
- Filtros para Quitar el Plomo de Agua Potable
- WIFLA
Legislative and Community Information
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Water News
Environmentalists take petrochemical giant Formosa to court over plastics pollution
For years, Diane Wilson has tried to get Formosa Plastics Corp. to stop discharging plastic pellets from its sprawling petrochemical complex on the Central Texas coast. This week, she's getting her day in court. Read [...]
Study of Coal Ash Pollution Finds Widespread Groundwater Contamination
An examination of monitoring data available for the first time concludes that 91 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants with monitoring data are contaminating groundwater with unsafe levels of toxic pollutants. Read more here
MN Preventing Lead Poisoning
It would cost more than $4 billion to get the lead out of Minnesota's drinking water, but it could bring a 2-for-1 return on the investment."As we see in many other areas of public health, [...]
More than 50 million gallons of water polluted with toxic metals pours daily from US mine sites
Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding streams and ponds without [...]
