#water-quality

#water-quality

After four shark attacks in New South Wales in less than 48 hours, authorities on Tuesday urged beachgoers just go to a local pool instead. Sydneysiders have heard similar warnings before in the past, they've been issued for beaches polluted with faecal matter after heavy rains. The city's unique, outdated sewage management system has been linked to debris balls which have been washing up with increased frequency on Sydney beaches, including again last week at Malabar.

For the first time in a century and after a multi-billion-dollar, decades-long clean-up, parts of the once toxic Boston Harbor waters meet water quality standards that will allow for direct harvest and human consumption of shellfish. The announcement came from the state's Division of Marine Fisheries at the start of the year. DMF said that water quality has improved significantly enough that both commercial and recreational shellfishers will be allowed to harvest shellfish for personal use or direct sale to consumers.

I'll call him Bruce. He's any of the 3.1 million Australians living in a house with a pool or spa. Over my long career in hardware, listening to the woes of so many Bruces, I've discovered that owning a pool is not all fun and bubbles at cocktail hour. In the beginning, it wasn't so bad. On first viewing his bayside property, Bruce already believed the agent's claim that by far the most desirable addition to any home is a pool.

Their destinations were a series of breakwaters a few hundred yards offshore. The breakwaters are essentially man-made islands of jagged rocks, intended to stave off beach erosion that's been ongoing for decades. If it turns out they can host oyster reefs, too, all the better. Whales and dolphins have begun returning to New York Harbor; why not oysters, which, in these parts, once numbered in the billions?

Veralto brings together a portfolio of 14 companies leading in essential technology solutions. The company launched in October 2023 and counts more than 17,000 associates worldwide. The area of their work is divided between Water Quality companies and Product Quality and Innovation companies. The former support customers in managing and protecting water resources globally. Product Quality and Innovation companies enable traceability and authentication to help safeguard food, medicine, and essential goods across the supply chain.

The country will fail to meet the target of restoring all waters to "good" or better status by 2027 if the scale and pace of progress is not improved, a new EPA report has found. The latest Water Quality in Ireland Report, which assessed the quality of Ireland's rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal waters, canals and groundwaters between 2019 and last year, found an overall deterioration in water quality despite some improvements.

UCLA researchers analyzed hundreds of water systems across six counties in Southern California. They found that in Los Angeles County, average household water bills climbed nearly 60% from 2015 to 2025, faster than inflation. Kern County systems had more than 1,500 violations in the last decade. Over the last decade, water bills in Los Angeles County have risen nearly 60% on average, outpacing inflation and adding to financial strain for low-income households, according to a UCLA report.

Since then, soil preservation via conservation programs has come to the fore. With strategies like planting prairie strips, soil nutrient loss is reduced. This is possible for farms with large acreages, and for smaller market farms too. Prairie strips do not need to be installed all at once, and can be introduced to the farm in stages. There are plenty of other reasons for planting prairie strips - soil nutrient loss being one factor.

John Lewis has provided bottled water to Longstock residents after high nitrate levels made local supplies unsafe. This issue stems from fertilizer pollution affecting drinking water.

Water can taste different due to the material of the bottle it is stored in. The interactions between the water and the bottle's material affect both the quality and taste.

County officials urge Pescadero residents to report unsafe drinking water and emphasize that reporting can be done confidentially without questions about immigration status.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's interactive beach water quality dashboard, 25 beaches will be closed this weekend. Most of the beach closures are at ponds and lakes.

Fluoride is a natural mineral. It strengthens teeth and fights dental decay. It's been added to the U.S.'s public drinking supply since the 1940s.

According to The Natural Resources Defense Council, 35 New Jersey beaches were able to meet water quality standards 98% of the time over the last five years.

Work to install 180m of crash barriers around Grand Junction Reservoir in Hampton, Richmond, will lead to a 15-week closure of a key road stretch.

Local health officials in Massachusetts monitor bacteria levels at over 1,100 beaches, with testing frequency determined by the beach's risk for water quality issues.

Walking into a kitchen with the Waterdrop A2 feels like discovering a secret that everyone else missed. This isn't your grandmother's clunky water filter; it's a masterpiece that happens to purify water.

The five-acre Gansevoort Peninsula features sandy beach vibes and river views, yet swimming is prohibited due to pollution from nearby sewage overflows.

The main reason for the swimming ban at Gansevoort Beach is poor water quality due to nearby combined sewer overflow pipes that release sewage during heavy rain.

I'm deeply grateful to the residents and businesses for enduring this unexpected boil water advisory. Residents and businesses expect better, and I am as committed as ever to finding the problems and fixing them.

"We're addressing this crisis with sewer systems that don't just pump wastewater out to the ocean or the Sound - but systems that actually treat it properly and help protect our aquifer."

The report by Holiday Park Guru highlighted beaches with poor water quality, using Environment Agency data, awarding 'Brown Flag Awards' to 19 contaminated stretches of coast.

Hundreds of cast-iron boxes, often unnoticed by passers-by, serve as vital water sampling stations in New York City maintained by the Department of Environmental Protection.