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What’s Contaminating Our Once-Pristine Water Sources?

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Clean water is vital to our health, communities, and economy. Streams and wetlands provide many benefits by trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, filtering pollution, and providing habitat for fish and wildlife. People depend on clean water sources for their health: about 117 million US residents — one in three people … [continued]

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Aquaria — Reimagining Water Access Through Air Water

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Much of our focus here on CleanTechnica is about renewable energy and electric vehicles. These technologies help prevent air pollution and catastrophic climate change. However, there’s also the need for clean water, and even just water access for those without the benefit of easily accessible drinking water. Aquaria is a … [continued]

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Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes

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By Maya Moore 
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say.   Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.

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Two-Thirds Of River Trash Is Plastic (Research)

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The following information is somewhat difficult on an emotional level, but important to consider. It might be difficult because pesky, toxic fossil fuel pollution seems to get into almost everything: air, oceans, soil, food, etc. Plastics typically are made from fossil fuels. If you read CleanTechnica with any regularity, you … [continued]

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