Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Florida city voted this week to remove fluoride from its drinking water, with one city commissioner citing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past comments on the matter as one of the reasons. The city ...
There is a risk of contamination of the Biscayne Aquifer, the county's sole drinking water source. [9] 06/24/1988: 02/21/1990: 09/15/1999: FLD012978862: Alaric Area Groundwater Plume: Hillsborough: Groundwater contamination by PCE and TCE, including trace contamination of the Upper Floridan Aquifer, a major source of drinking water in the Tampa ...
The recommendation comes as a Florida city voted last week to remove fluoride from its drinking water, with one city commissioner citing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past comments on the matter as ...
The water was “making people and pets ill,” a federal complaint said. A Florida city fired her for reporting sewage in drinking water. They owe her $818,000
In early US history, drinking water quality in the country was managed by individual drinking water utilities and at the state and local level. In 1914 the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) published a set of drinking water standards, pursuant to existing federal authority to regulate interstate commerce , and in response to the 1893 Interstate ...
The cost of adding fluoridation to the water of 44 Florida communities has been researched by the State Health Office in Tallahassee. [41] In communities with a population of over 50,000 people, fluoridation costs were estimated at 31 cents per person per year. The estimated cost rises to $2.12 per person in areas with a population below 10,000.
Decades of engineering projects for development and agriculture partitioned and drained water that once flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. Invasive species have transformed the land, and pollution from agriculture – primarily phosphorus – has impoverished water quality.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us