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EPA's new showerhead specifications

03/10/2010: Last week, EPA’s WaterSense program announced its final specification for showerheads.    Read full post . . .


Time to schedule your annual water well check-up!

03/08/2010: March 7-13 is National Ground Water Awareness Week!    Read full post . . .


There's Tons of Water on the Moon

03/04/2010: NASA announced earlier this week that it's Mini-SAR instrument found more than 40 small craters on the moon that contain water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 1.3 trillion pounds (600 million metric tons) of water ice on the moon.    Read full post . . .


Don't flush it!

02/25/2010: Other than the excellent water treatment processes in place today, the best and most reliable way of making sure that the water we drink is safe is by protecting it at the source. And one of the best ways to protect those source waters (and the animals living in them)? By not flushing your old or unused medications.    Read full post . . .


Water concerns trump terrorism in Yemen

02/23/2010: Ever since an attempt to bomb a Northwest airliner failed Christmas day, the U.S. government and media have determined that Yemen is the new breeding ground for al Qaeda operatives; but people living there face an even larger domestic issue than terrorism – lack of water.    Read full post . . .


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