Latest Drinking water Stories

NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lenny Kravitz - GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer and actor--is using his voice and talent to do more than dazzle the stage and screen. He is throwing his support behind the global push by UNICEF and its partners to help save and improve the lives of millions of children and their families around the world by providing them with access to clean water and adequate sanitation. "I was born in New York City and...

NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WaterAid welcomes the news that the world has met its goal to halve the proportion of people without safe drinking water by 2015. The international non-profit organization has called for a renewed effort to reach the 780 million people still waiting for water. New figures from the WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program Report 2012 (http://www.wssinfo.org) were released today and reveal that between 1990 and 2010 over two billion...

Borehole to serve as many as 25,000 citizens and refugees LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A permanent, sustainable source of drinking water that is expected to serve as many as 25,000 people in Niger is being funded in part by a US$40,000 donation from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF). With the grant, TPRF is providing further aid to the nonprofit Amman Imman: Water Is Life for an effort already started with the financial assistance of the Vibrant Village...

More than 1 in 3 counties in the United States could face a "high" or "extreme" risk of water shortages due to climate change by the middle of the 21st century, according to a new study in ACS's Journal of Environmental Science & Technology. The new report concluded that 7 in 10 of the more than 3,100 U.S. counties could face "some" risk of shortages of fresh water for drinking, farming and other uses. It includes maps that identify the counties at risk of shortages. In the analysis,...

For years, the United Nations, World Health Organization and other noted groups that are working to eradicate death and illness due to lack of sanitation have been spreading the word about these and other horrific statistics: about every 15 seconds a child dies from a waterborne-related disease; over 40 percent of the world’s population (2.6 billion people) does not have access to toilets; safe drinking water is unavailable to 1.1 billion people. In fact, the global sanitation crisis is...

Water is a crucial part of emergency preparedness, says the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Heading into the springtime tornado season, it’s important to know how much water one needs in time of disaster. Home Security Store has some survival tips. Riverside, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2012 In the 1940s, Mahatma Gandhi went 21 days without food, surviving only on occasional sips of water, reports Canadian news agency CBC News. Gandhi was in his mid-70s at the time and was of...

Bottled water has the lowest carbon footprint, the lowest water footprint, and the highest curbside recycling rates of packaged drinks, says the International Bottled Water Association Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 The International Bottled Water Association’s (IBWA) consumer website http://www.bottledwatermatters.org (BWM) has launched a new YouTube video that provides bottled water facts to help counter anti-bottled water activism on college campuses. The new video, Student...

[ Watch the Video ] Community outreach helps technology solve water problems in Africa In the United States and other developed countries, fluoride is often added to drinking water and toothpaste to help strengthen teeth. But too much naturally occurring fluoride can have exactly the opposite effect. Large amounts of fluoride can lead to dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis. "Dental fluorosis is a darkening or mottling of the teeth, and you can tell very easily when people...

Award-winning illustrator Tavis Coburn, acclaimed international commercial director Brent Harris, and Giorgio Armani Fragrances team up to help UNICEF provide safe, clean water to children around the world NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Now in its sixth year, the award-winning UNICEF Tap Project once again offers thousands of volunteers, restaurants, partners and individuals across the nation the opportunity to help provide the world's children with...

First, the Revolutionary EasyWater No-Salt Water Conditioner and Now Introducing RevitaLife. Greenfield, IN (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 EasyWater, the leader in innovative water treatment for 25 years, has done it again! Recognizing early on that over 85% of the U. S. has hard water, the EasyWater No-Salt Water Conditioner revolutionized the water treatment industry with EasyWater’s salt-free, zero maintenance approach to solving hard water problems. Leveraging its engineering and design...