Water Spots Blog

For the third time in six months, Fremont, Ohio issued a warning for residents to use bottled water for children under the age of six months. The city’s water tested excessively high in nitrates, a toxic substance that often enters water supply systems from fertilizers, animal wastes, septic tanks, municipal sewage treatment systems, and decaying [...]

A recent study of E.P.A. data shows that Safe Drinking Water Act violations have occurred in all 50 states and more than 20% of municipal drinking water systems have violated crucial elements of this law. Some were isolated events with little risk to communities and others were due to contamination that has persisted for years.  [...]

Only recently, West Union, officials learned about a spill took place over the summer at a location upstream from the community’s drinking water intake. West Union’s drinking water treatment plant began experiencing high levels of manganese in the incoming water in mid-July through October. The levels recorded were four times higher than normal. While manganese [...]

According to investigation released by the Associated Press in September 2009, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country contains unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. This investigation revealed contamination in both public and private schools, from small towns to large cities and in all 50 states. The contamination [...]

There have been some fantastic news reports about contaminated water, but in Hartford, Connecticut, what they found is nothing short of creepy. In April 2009, in Hartford, Connecticut, a resident there spotted “little polliwogs” or organisms about the size of a pin head in his water filter. You can see a larger picture of the [...]

There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about the herbicide Atrazine. The debate? Just how much is allowable in our drinking water. While many of us may believe that the correct response to this question should be, “None”, the reality is that according to the EPA, it is perfectly acceptable for [...]