Water Making Machine

June 24, 2010: Kansas City, MO USA
Bottled water was a hot commodity in Drexel
on Thursday after it was revealed that the tap
water was contaminated with the herbicide
atrazine.
Drexel Mayor Kenny Reece found out
Wednesday night about the city’s bad water
supply. The state tests the city’s water four
times a year and samples from last month

showed high levels of [...]

June 27, 2010: Honesdale, PA USA
Aqua Pennsylvania has issued a precautionary
boil water notice for its customers in the
Honesdale system north of 4th Street and in the
Seelyville area. The precautionary boil order is in
place to accommodate maintenance work.
Aqua urges customers not to drink the water
unless it is boiled first.Boiled or bottled water

should be used for drinking, [...]

June 26, 2010: CALEDONIA, MI USA
Some residents near the Oak Creek power plant
have not had access to drinking water since last
August because their wells have been
contaminated.
They have been advised by the state Department
of Natural Resources to not drink or cook with
the well water because of higher-than-standard
levels of a dissolved metal called molybdenum.
The state groundwater standard [...]

June 23, 2010: Palm Bay, FLORIDA USA
A service line break has prompted Palm Bay
officials to issue a boil-water alert for several
neighborhoods in the northeastern part of the
city. Utility crews are currently on-site and
working to repair the broken service line. In order
to make repairs, it will be necessary for crews to
shut down water service for utilities [...]

June 24, 2010: VIETNAM
VietNamNet Bridge – Prolonged hot weather and
drought, plus the shortage of electricity, has
pounded the central provinces of Nghe An and
Ha Tinh. “We have never experienced such a
fierce drought like this year. With power outages
very often, we couldn’t pump water to irrigate
our crops, so we have lost it all,” lamented Ho
Duc That, a [...]

June 2, 2010: BANGLADESH
In Bangladesh, where an estimated 60 million
people are exposed to unsafe arsenic levels in
their drinking water, irrigation practices that tap
deep aquifers could compromise access to clean
drinking water across the country, according to a
report in a recent issue of the journal Science.
Arsenic in drinking water dramatically raises the
risk for cancer and other serious [...]

June 1, 2010: ANDERSON, S.C. USA
Officials issued a boil water advisory on Tuesday
morning for residents in Anderson who are using
Electric City Utilities.
A statement from the utility said that a drop in
system pressure was caused by a power outage
at the Anderson Regional Join Water System
water treatment plant. It said that the drop in
pressure may have contaminated [...]

Jun 2, 2010: NEPAL
Children and families are at risk as a shortage of
safe drinking water grips Nepal. Half the country
now faces drinking water shortages, the
Federation of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Users Nepal, warned yesterday.
More than 20 areas of Nepal, one of the world’s
poorest countries, have been badly affected, say
experts, in spite of the nation entering its
monsoon [...]

June 6, 2010
Despite more rainfall in southern European
countries in 2009 than in previous years, the
report warns that greater efforts are still needed
to stop and reverse the mistreatment of Europe’s
finite water resources. An effective water pricing
policy, water efficiency and water saving
measures are essential to ensure that Europe has
enough good quality water to meet the needs of
users [...]