by Casey Fischl Bottled water consumption has steadily increased over the last few decades, reaching an all-time high in 2017 with 13.7 billion gallons of bottled water purchased in the…
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by Patricia Quintero Estades 1. It’s growing in popularity Worldwide use of water desalination has been growing in the past years. Countries in the Middle East (such as Saudi Arabia and…
by Patricia Quintero Estades The water crisis in Flint Michigan has shed light on problems of water contamination and of crumbling water infrastructure facing communities all over the U.S. With presidential candidates like…
by Patricia Quintero Estades It’s World Water Day so it seems only fitting we take some time to think about water and how it affects everything and everyone. In previous water…
by Patricia Quintero Estades Oh it is magical! In the Disney movie Enchanted, a twist on the traditional fairy tale, Giselle is pushed out of her fairy-tale world into modern-day New…
by Patricia Quintero Estades If you’re like me, you don’t worry about how you’ll get your next glass of water to drink or your next shower. In most developed nations, clean…
by Raphael Bostic About 150 years ago, people figured out that lead pipes could kill them. In 1861, fifty prisoners in King County Jail in Brooklyn started vomiting uncontrollably, until a…