Drugs Found in Watersheds of 28 Areas

At least one pharmaceutical or byproduct was detected in testing within the watersheds of 28 major metropolitan areas, according to an Associated Press survey of 62 major water providers and data obtained from independent researchers.

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By Janelle Robbins, Waterkeeper Alliance Staff Scientist

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Water basins will become the flashpoints. These are the large areas, which drain into the world's major rivers and eventually the sea. They contain millions of people, farmland, forests, cities, industry and coastline and often straddle multiple political boundaries.

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In what is being described as a one-of-a-kind model for water-supply management, the Aquarion Water Company and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) have established a water-management partnership that will attempt to hold sufficient water in reserve for human needs without denying an ar …

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Global demand for cheap consumer wood products has turned China into the center of a thriving illegal timber trade that is wiping out some of the world's most endangered forests, the environmental group Greenpeace charged Tuesday.

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