That’s almost 900 times as high as the 15-ppb regulatory limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency. When lead levels exceed that threshold, water utilities must act to reduce concentrations of the toxic element."
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"When Virginia Tech researchers tested the water in LeeAnne Walters’s home in Flint, Mich., this past summer, one sample had lead levels that reached a staggering 13,200 parts per billion.
That’s almost 900 times as high as the 15-ppb regulatory limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency. When lead levels exceed that threshold, water utilities must act to reduce concentrations of the toxic element." Read the rest here.. David McCandless, blogger at InformationIsBeautiful.net, created this wonderful graphic based on a study of the disappearance of Atlantic Ocean fish over the past 100 years done by the Fisheries Centre in Vancouver, Canada. The article at guardian.co.uk touches on our collective amnesia about the "way things were," and how the environmental baseline continues to shift closer and closer to collapse. - Link
Today, NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina launched the Aquarius Spacecraft, a mission to map salinity patterns in the ocean. If all goes well, it will quickly surpass the amount of data gathered from ships over the past century in mere months.
Salinity data will enhance the understanding of ocean circulation and how it responds to freshwater inputs (like massive glacial melting) and global climate changes. Good stuff - Link |
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