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Why I Drink Distilled Water - Dr. Clifford C. Dennison
Error at Pelindaba: Nuclear waste in river - www.chemafrica.com 00/05/30 PELINDABA, South Africa
The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) on Monday reported that NECSA (The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation – formerly AEC) released 242-million litres of radioactive liquid waste into the Crocodile River. This represents a "small increase" over what was expected for 1999. The Crocodile River flows into the Hartebeespoort Dam near Pretoria.[Editor's Comment] "How many bottled water manufacturers are 3-4 kilometres from the Crocodile River or the Dam? What if that radioactive waste migrated into the ground water just like that county in the US!"
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Iscor to monitor Buffalo River after chemical spill 00/05/30 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -www.chemafrica.com
South African steel and mining resource company, Iscor, will conduct an independent water monitoring exercise after thousands of fish died in the Buffalo River following a gas explosion at its Newcastle plant two weeks ago. At the time of the spillage, water affairs spokesperson Kobus Rothman said the water could "at most give a person an upset stomach"!!!!!
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Arsenic in drinking water - 00/06/05 - www.chemafrica.com
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently developing stricter standards for allowable levels of arsenic in the nation's drinking water supplies. Arsenic has long been identified as a toxicant, and in drinking water it has been associated with skin cancer and other disorders. But recent studies suggest that drinking water with high levels of arsenic also can lead to bladder and lung cancer, which are more likely to be fatal.
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Sewage line feeds into Louisiana water line for 3 months - CNN May 17 2000
Residents of about 60 homes drank and bathed in water contaminated by sewage for almost 3 months because city workers mistakenly connected a sewer line to an underground water pipe.
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Gold mines aim to make drinking water from waste - Business Day
SA could be the first country in the world to turn highly polluted mine water into drinking water.Unfortunately the entire article is no longer available on-line
More waters test positive for drugs - Science News Online - April 1 2000
Over the past decade, European chemists have been documenting widespread pharmaceutical contamination of their lakes, streams, and groundwater. In San Francisco this week, U.S. and Canadian scientists offered preliminary confirmation that traces of drugs, excreted by people and livestock, similarly pollute American waters.Unfortunately the entire article is no longer available on-line
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