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Phosphate Plant to Dump Excess Wastewater
ST. PETERSBURG – Emergency releases of wastewater from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant into Bishop Harbor likely will resume soon after Christmas, officials said Thursday. The discharges will come after officials add an extra layer of water treatment to safeguard sensitive ecosystems, and likely will continue indefinitely while they seek other ways to safely […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Piney Point: Phosphate Discharge to Resume
ST. PETERSBURG – Sometime between Christmas and New Year’s, the flow of waste from an abandoned Manatee County phosphate plant into a shallow harbor off Tampa Bay will resume. Ten million gallons of partially treated waste water were discharged last month before alarmed Bay watchers persuaded the state to suspend the operation. This time, the […]
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Killed by lethal waste
It has taken the unfortunate deaths of three young children for Karachi’s administration to realize that the city has factories which are polluting the living environment to such an extent that people are dying because of the contamination. Two four-year-olds and one six-year-old child died when they happened to chance upon a powder which they […]
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Chesapeake water customers get added fluoride
CHESAPEAKE — A broken well in Western Branch is forcing the city to deliver water with higher-than-normal levels of fluoride to some residents. The fluoride-rich water being pumped to some Bowers Hill and Deep Creek neighborhoods won’t pose a health threat, city officials said. But long-term exposure could potentially cause tooth discoloration in children, said […]
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Lawsuit Challenges Escondido Fluoridation Plan
VISTA —- A group of 10 people who live or work in Escondido are seeking a court order barring the city from fluoridating its water supply. A class-action lawsuit originally filed in September and updated last week alleges that the city’s decision to add fluoride to drinking water violates residents’ equal-protection and due-process rights under […]
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China to relocate 64,000 villagers from areas plagued by chronic heart, bone diseases
SHANGHAI, China – A northern Chinese province plans to move 64,000 villagers from areas where chemicals in the soil and water are blamed for high levels of heart and bone disease. Residents of nearly 2,000 villages in the worst-afflicted parts of Shaanxi province are to be moved over the next five years, said provincial health […]
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Groups seek solution for wastewater woes
PINEY POINT – The fate of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater at the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant may come into focus Thursday, when area leaders gather for talks in St. Petersburg. Officials and activists will try to hammer out a plan for disposing of the highly acidic water – millions of gallons of […]
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Peepal may have cure for fluoride poisoning
CUTTACK: The antidote for fluoride poisoning may well lie in the Peepal and Drumstick trees. The Animal Disease Research Institute (ADRI) at Phulnakhara here is all set to conduct a research to find this out. The basis for the research project was formed after preliminary investigation by the Institute’s experts in the fluorosis affected zones […]
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Health Care Home plans to avoid fluoride water
A private care home in Workington is to start distilling its own drinking water – rather than allow its residents fo drink fluoridated water. Ron Adair, who owns and manages Croft House in South William Street with his wife Vita, regards fluoride as a slow poison and is campaigning to have it permanently removed from […]
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Fluoridation Process Fraught With Controversy
Two years from now South Africa’s regulated drinking water supplies will be fluoridated to an optimum level of 0,7mg per litre of water in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Department of Health on September 8 this year. “The cost of this programme is estimated at R30-million a year,” says the chairperson of The South […]
South Africa