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| 2009-11-04 | |
| Humans need very few things to survive: air, shelter, food, and water. Fossil fuels (oil, coal and natural gas) pollute the air with smog, soot and global warming pollution, but their effect on water is often overlooked. Natural gas, which the industry touts as the “cleanest of all fossil fuels,” threatens to dirty drinking water with toxic chemicals used in drilling. | |
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| 2009-10-21 | |
| Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year—threatening both the environment and human health. | |
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| 2009-07-29 | |
| In 2008, beach closings and advisories hit their fourth highest level in the 19 years the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been tracking them. The number of closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches topped 20,000 for the fourth year in a row, confirming that our nation’s beaches continue to suffer from serious water pollution that puts swimmers at risk. | |
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| 2008-08-05 | |
| Environment Ohio issued a new report today on water efficiency to boost its case for the Great Lakes Compact that is swiftly moving in Congress. The report - Using Water Wisely - calculates that six Southwestern states could save as much as 1.86 trillion gallons of water per year by dramatically improving efficiency of water use. | |
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| 2008-07-29 | |
| COLUMBUS, OHIO – As summer temperatures soar and families flock to America's coastal beaches, they often find that an unwelcome "intruder" has beaten them to the shore: an official beach advisory, warning people not to enter the water because of dirty water contaminated with dangerous bacteria. | |
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| 2007-10-11 | |
| In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act’s original vision. | |
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| 2007-05-23 | |
| More than thirty years after the Cuyahoga River was engulfed in flames and the Clean Water Act was passed to clean up America’s waterways, Ohio’s lakes, rivers, and streams continue to be plagued by pollution. | |
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| 2006-04-20 | |
| The discharge of untreated human sewage to waterways poses severe potential threats to human health. Sewage commonly contains bacteria, parasites and viruses that can make people ill, as well as a variety of toxic chemicals. | |
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| 2005-11-30 | |
| More than thirty years after the Cuyahoga River was engulfed in flames and the Clean Water Act was passed to clean up America’s waterways, Ohio’s lakes, rivers, and streams continue to be plagued by pollution. | |
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| 2005-05-26 | |
| More than 30 years after passage of the Clean Water Act and despite the fact that over 7 million people become sick each year from sewage dumping, over 850 billion gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage are being released into U.S. rivers, lakes and streams every year. | |
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