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From baked beans to barbecue, treasured trade secrets benevolently guarantee a monopoly on happy holiday gatherings. But some carefully guarded recipes are not so benign. A recent inquiry suggests the brew used during natural gas drilling may be poisoning water nationwide.

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Sanitation needs to be given priority in development policy approaches, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday, and suggested a four-point roadmap to make this universally available to all citizens.”Good sanitation should be a birthright of every citizen of South Asia,”

The stress crack between Environmental Protection Agency and its outside science advisers just got a lot deeper. In fact, these days it looks a lot like a thousand-foot crevasse. The proximate cause: perchlorate, a rocket fuel component, potent thyroid toxin and ubiquitous water and soil pollutant,

By Alisa Miller They say bad habits are hard to break, but maybe not if you replace them with good habits that reward you with good health and financial rewards. The following habits range from daily routines to activities that will keep you mentally and physically fit to ways you can keep more money in the bank.

Kashmir voters brave chill, boycott to vote for better future November 17th, 2008 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS - Trigam (Jammu and Kashmir), Nov 17 (IANS) They braved the winter chill, the overcast sky and defied the boycott call given by separatists Monday to vote for better facilities and a brighter ...

What is the chemical composition of CuraPoxy? How safe is it to drink water from pipe lined with this as compared to other plastic pipes and water containers? -Gerry Gerry, while I can’t disclose the chemical composition of CuraFlo’s epoxy, CuraPoxy®, I can tell you that it’s certified to meet ANSI/NSF Standard 61 which is the U.S.

While Walmart was one of many companies that removed bottles containing BPA from their shelves, they forgot to look at what was inside those bottles.  In a report released last month by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), Sam’s Choice bottled water, produced by Wal-Mart was found to have high levels of contamination including toxic byproducts of chlorination.

Nature’s Gift Gone Bad In this industrious world that we live in today, you cannot read the news without hearing about a noxious spill or disaster somewhere that is polluting our drinking waters. It is now a rarity to find a toxin-free water source.

can you maintain infrasturture when you don’t even have enough money for unemployment funding or health care spending or police and fire services? October 21st, 2008 / No Comments » / by Daniel In some of our older cities, there are still parts of the water systems that have lead pipes.

Bottled water no better that tap says environmental advocacy group October 16th, 2008 by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H. I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines, “study finds contaminants in bottled water.”  Just the type of health news everyone loves to print, the scare of the day.  I’m doing it, too.