EPA to brief Boxer on toxic school drinking water. A California senator called on the head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to disclose how the agency plans to address the widespread problem of toxic drinking water in the nation’s schools. Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/05/us/AP-US-Toxic-Water-Schools.html
Radiation levels are high in water at some Acreage homes.Radiation levels were higher than normal at the homes of as many as 10 Acreage families with brain tumors or brain cancer, according a New York City law firm affiliated with the nationally known environmental activist Erin Brockovich. Palm Beach Post, Florida.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/10/05/1005acreagewater.html
San Francisco Bay’s slide in mud worries scientists. Millions of tons of sand and clay that Gold Rush miners scoured from the Sierra Nevada have finally flushed out to sea after more than a century in San Francisco Bay, according to the San Francisco Estuary Institute. San Francisco Chronicle, California.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/05/MN781A0F6Q.DTL
Egypt oasis risks becoming mirage.From Siwa to Libya the Nubian aquifer is being drained at an increasing rate. And some believe without a more concerted effort by all parties, these green dots in the desert might suddenly and irrevocably disappear from the map. BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8289532.stm
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