#cleanwater — Public Fediverse posts

A divided Fifth Circuit just ruled the U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee a right to clean drinking water — or accurate info from officials during a public health crisis. Jackson, MS residents suing over lead-contaminated water? Case dismissed. The "state-created danger" theory is now dead in that circuit too. Flint litigants, take note.
#CleanWater #politics #news #environment

Feel the Protection

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/6071197-epa-clean-water-act-western-water/

EPA considers further narrowing Clean Water Act protections

#EPA #CleanWater #PublicRisk #BillionaireProfit

3 Million Oysters Eaten by New Yorkers Are Rebuilding the City’s Reefs https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/21629/ #CleanWater #Food #MarineLife #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Nonprofit #OysterBar #OysterBars #OysterHouse #OysterHouses #OysterRestaurant #OysterRestaurants #Restaurants #Volunteer #Waste

3 Million Oysters Eaten by New Yorkers Are Rebuilding the City’s Reefs https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/21629/ #CleanWater #Food #MarineLife #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Nonprofit #OysterBar #OysterBars #OysterHouse #OysterHouses #OysterRestaurant #OysterRestaurants #Restaurants #Volunteer #Waste

3 Million Oysters Eaten by New Yorkers Are Rebuilding the City’s Reefs https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/21629/ #CleanWater #Food #MarineLife #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Nonprofit #OysterBar #OysterBars #OysterHouse #OysterHouses #OysterRestaurant #OysterRestaurants #Restaurants #Volunteer #Waste

3 Million Oysters Eaten by New Yorkers Are Rebuilding the City’s Reefs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/3-million-oysters-eaten-by-new-yorkers-are-rebuilding-the-citys-reefs/

🌊 Giornata Mondiale dei Laghi

🌊 Giornata Mondiale dei Laghi 2026: un tuffo nella bellezza!

Amiche e amici del buongiorno, oggi niente sveglia al profumo di caffè soltanto: facciamo partire la giornata con il riflesso del sole sull’acqua, una brezza leggera e, possibilmente, un lago davanti agli occhi! 🌊☀️

Il 27 agosto torna la Giornata Mondiale dei Laghi, il World Lake Day, e nel 2026 siamo alla seconda edizione ufficiale. La ricorrenza è stata istituita dall’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite nel dicembre 2024, scegliendo il 27 agosto in omaggio alla prima Conferenza mondiale sui laghi, organizzata nel 1984 nella prefettura giapponese di Shiga, sulle rive del lago Biwa.

💧 Non sono soltanto belli da fotografare!

I laghi sono molto più di uno sfondo perfetto per Instagram.

Sono riserve preziose di acqua dolce, ospitano pesci, piante e animali, aiutano a mitigare gli effetti di alluvioni e siccità e contribuiscono alla regolazione del clima. Sono inoltre fondamentali per agricoltura, pesca, turismo e per le comunità che vivono sulle loro rive.

Insomma, il lago fa praticamente tutto… e noi spesso gli chiediamo soltanto:

Scusi, dov’è il punto panoramico più bello?

🌍 Il messaggio del 2026

Dopo il debutto del 2025, il World Lake Day entra nel suo secondo anno con un messaggio ancora più attuale: proteggere i laghi significa proteggere il nostro futuro.

Inquinamento, consumo eccessivo delle risorse, cambiamenti climatici, riscaldamento delle acque e variazioni dei livelli idrici stanno mettendo sotto pressione questi delicatissimi ecosistemi. L’ONU invita quindi a passare dalla semplice ammirazione alla tutela concreta.

E non serve trasformarsi in palombari ambientalisti: basta già evitare di lasciare plastica e rifiuti sulle rive, rispettare flora e fauna, usare l’acqua con attenzione e scegliere un turismo più responsabile. 😉

💚🤍❤️E i nostri laghi?

In Italia abbiamo un vero guardaroba di meraviglie naturali: Como, Garda, Maggiore, Iseo, Orta, Trasimeno e tanti piccoli laghi meno famosi, ma capaci di regalare paesaggi da copertina.

Perché allora non celebrare questa giornata con una passeggiata sul lungolago, una biciclettata, un picnic senza plastica oppure semplicemente qualche minuto di silenzio davanti all’acqua?

Il lago non pretende applausi. Ci regala bellezza, tranquillità e vita. Ricambiare con un po’ di rispetto sarebbe decisamente chic. 💙

🥂 Un brindisi… rigorosamente senz’acqua sprecata!

Oggi brindiamo idealmente ai laghi del mondo: agli specchi d’acqua che riflettono montagne, nuvole, tramonti e, qualche volta, anche noi mentre cerchiamo disperatamente di venire bene in fotografia! 😂

Buona Giornata Mondiale dei Laghi 2026!
Che sia una giornata fresca, limpida, sostenibile e… assolutamente Perfettamente Chic! 💧✨

Per approfondire, rileggi anche il nostro articolo del 2025: “Good Morning, World Lake Day!”, dedicato alla prima storica edizione della Giornata Mondiale dei Laghi.

Autore: Lynda Di Natale
Fonte: web
Immagine: AI

Changing the focus to “functional” over climate emergency solutions is one of the disappointments I’ve witnessed in Governor Ferguson’s egregious reshuffling priorities with the ferries in WA state. I miss Jay Inslee’s priorities. Now must service tourism over residents, including the creatures that live in Puget Sound.
#DontMakeMyCityAThemePark #orcas #salmon #cleanair #cleanwater #2026FIFAWorldCup
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/wa-gov-Ferguson-delays-conversion-of-ferries-to-electric-power/

#MI10 wants a representative like Carl Marlinga who will fight for them, bring down costs, bring back jobs while providing healthcare and clean water for families. His opponent will gut Social Security/Medicare and repeal the ACA. Let's elect Carl in November. #BlueWaveRising #DemCastMI #DemCast #Allied4Dems #SocialSecurity #Medicare #ACA #CleanWater #Vote4Healthcare #Michigan #Jobs

Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries but Can Be Halved by Plastic Debris Removal
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c00010 <-- shared paper #1
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-022-00470-8 <-- shared paper #2
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[By some estimates, we ingest about a credit card's worth of plastic every single week (link #2), but this very much varies by location (link #1)]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #publichealth #microplastics #MP #water #hydrology #freshwater #marine #watersecurity #waterresources #humanimpacts #plastic #industrialdevelopment #diet #ingestion #humanuptake #healthimpacts #developingworld #coast #coastline #plasticpollution #pollution #foodchain #ecosystems #foodweb #habitat #model #modeling #SDGs #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #cleanwater #sanitation #debris #healthrisk #risk #hazard #saltwater #watertreatment #solidwaste #wastemanagement #mitigation #physiochemical #pathological #biochemical

A new study on future #cleanwater scarcity shows that we do have choices and can improve the situation, says PIK scientist Benjamin Bodirsky: "The deterioration of #wateraccess can be halted by adopting more efficient fertilizer use as well as more vegetarian diets, and by connecting a larger proportion of the global population to water treatment facilities.": https://tribune.net.ph/2024/02/06/pollution-risks-worsening-global-water-scarcity-study

➡ Link to the study in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44947-3

#Farmers Deceived About #Sewage #Sludge Safety

April 2, 2010

"On March 27th [2010] Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the #Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US #EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as #fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia counties without informing farmers of the serious risks associated with this practice. The VA code specifies, that to be valid, these permits can only be granted with the #InformedConsent of the landowner.

"The Federal #CleanWater Act defines sewage sludge as a #pollutant. Most of the pollutants that sewage treatment plants remove from wastewater concentrate in the resulting sludge. Exempt from #hazardous and solid waste laws, sludge is being spread on #agricultural land, despite mounting scientific evidence and field reports that using this contaminated waste as a cheap fertilizer is neither safe, beneficial, nor sustainable.

"The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service as well as Nutri-Blend Inc., the company that needs permits to spread sludge, are failing to provide landowners with the necessary facts, so they can make an informed decision whether or not to treat their land with sludge. The widely distributed Extension Service biosolids fact sheets-- although deceptively dated May 9, 2009-- provide out-dated, inaccurate, incomplete, and in some cases, misleading information. They overstate the alleged benefits and totally ignore the known risks and recent documented evidence of adverse health and #environmental impacts linked to sludge use. The fact sheets and brochures give the illusion that land applying sewage sludge, a complex and variable mixture of #HumanWaste and thousands of industrial #chemicals, many of which are #toxic and persistent, is a safe and normal agricultural practice.

"The information provided to landowners deceptively downplays the health risks of exposure to odors, odorant compounds, endotoxins, bacteria-laden dusts, and toxic gases at land application sites that can cause severe and permanent #lung damage. Nor are farmers told that typical sludges generated in industrialized urban areas contain not only pathogens, but also #PCBs, #dioxins, #carcinogens, #pharmaceuticals, flame retardants [#PFAS], and hormone disrupting chemicals that can damage developing organisms in parts per trillion. Many of these pollutants do not break down once they are applied to land. Worse, partial breakdown products are often more toxic than the parent material. Yet federal regulations require testing and standards for only nine toxic metals. Perhaps most important, the information provided to farmers fails to disclose that the National Academies of Science has indicated that while there are serious health concerns associated with many of the constituents of sewage sludge, there is too much uncertainty to scientifically predict the true health and environmental risks, when this complex waste mixture is applied to land.

"Finally, farmers are not told that sludge-exposure has been linked to illnesses, human deaths, livestock mortalities, groundwater pollution, and permanently degraded land. Unless there is a true and accurate disclosure of all the risks associated with this practice, there can be no true consent.

"Without informed consent, the state should not be issuing permits."

Link to archived web page (TY @internetarchive!):
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227022631/https://organicconsumers.org/press/farmers-deceived-about-sewage-sludge-safety

#PFOS #ChemicalIndustries #ToxicWaste #WaterIsLife #ForeverChemicals