Can Anyone Clean Up California's Selenium-Contaminated Farm Runoff?
Even after 35 years of efforts to resolve the issue, toxic farm water is being pushed into a local park and showing up in the eggs of local bird species.
Contamination
How Water Contamination Is Putting California's San Joaquin Valley at Risk
More than one million people in the San Joaquin Valley region have been exposed to unsafe drinking water in recent years from pesticides, arsenic, nitrate, and uranium. And many communities also face multiple environmental health threats.
Trial by Water: West Virginia's Elk River
The recent contamination illuminates just how tenuous and vital the safety of our water is.
Feature Story -- The Right Bugs
Terry Hazen finds, studies and then uses microbes to clean up pollution deep underground, to refine oil before it is pumped and to produce the next generation of green fuels. He catches alligators sometimes, too. ...
Garbage In, Garbage Out Can Be Overcome
Keeping trace contaminants out of drinking water is easier and cheaper than removing them later.
I’ll Have a Glass of What You Had Yesterday
Humans are actually less likely to be harmed by traces of detergents and drugs in our drinking water than are other species.
Turning a New Leafy Green
Sterilizing the family farm may not be the best way to keep E. coli out of your salad.