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  2. 2014 Elk River chemical spill - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia American Water began lifting the "do-not-use" ban in downtown Charleston, and would begin phasing in use of the system's drinking water based upon "priority zones." [9] By the evening of January 13, 15 percent of West Virginia American Water's customers were permitted to begin using the drinking water. [24]

  3. Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia - The ...

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    Moreover, DuPont was only required to clean up drinking water in communities where C8 levels exceeded the EPA’s safety limit of 0.4 parts per billion. (A recent study concluded that even this figure may be more than 100 times too high.) The water in Parkersburg, where most of the plaintiffs lived, initially fell just below that threshold.

  4. West Suffield residents complain about chlorine in their ...

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    Oct. 20—SUFFIELD — At one time, a group of West Suffield residents who receive water from a privately owned aquifer considered the liquid flowing from their taps on par with the best in the world.

  5. Little Blue Run Lake - Wikipedia

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    The lake contains 20 billion US gallons (7.6 × 10 10 litres; 1.7 × 10 10 imperial gallons) of coal ash and smokestack scrubber waste. [2] The northern coast of the lake is only a few hundred meters from the Ohio River, which is the drinking water source for more than three million people.

  6. List of Superfund sites in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in West Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination. [1]

  7. Amid conflicts and climate change, U.N. puts focus on 'deep ...

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    The conference this week in New York brought together about 10,000 participants, including national leaders and scientists, with a focus on addressing the world’s many water problems and making ...

  8. List of countries by access to clean water - Wikipedia

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    Share of the population without access to an improved water source, 2020. Global access to clean water is a significant global challenge that affects the health, well-being, and development of people worldwide. While progress has been made in recent years, millions of people still lack access to safe and clean drinking water sources.

  9. One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away ...

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    Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic ...