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That reasoning was sharply criticized by national experts, including Marc Edwards, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech University, who helped uncover the drinking water crisis in Flint last year and one in the nation's capital over a decade ago.

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Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

The hearings are drawing interest in the Capital Region amid a water contamination crisis in the village of Hoosick Falls, where the municipal drinking water was found to be contaminated with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing plants nearby.

Created in the wake of several high - profile contamination crises, New York's new Drinking Water Council is preparing to hold its first meeting.

With local water contamination crises rocking our state in recent months, the last thing our residents should have to worry about is clean drinking water,» said McLaughlin.

The New York crisis follows last year's water crisis in Flint, Mich., over dangerous levels of lead in the city's drinking water.

But Cuomo defended the state's response to the drinking water crisis during a stop in Syracuse, saying officials moved quickly when it was determined earlier this year the water was unsafe to use.

The donation was in line with a collaborative mission of the charity and the JAK Foundation geared towards the distribution of safe drinking water to communities experiencing water crisis across the world.

Certainly, lawmakers will question state and federal officials about the slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls, and why the state Department of Health assured residents they could drink their water for a year before reversing that position.

But the crisis in Flint, where dangerous levels of lead were found in drinking water in February 2015, has raised serious questions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have older infrastructure.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

Lead paint is considered the culprit, but the crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised questions about the safety of the drinking water in cities like Buffalo.

He also wants to increase the state's Superfund program to expedite the cleanup of hazardous waste that may impact drinking water sources — an issue in the contamination crisis in Rensselaer County and elsewhere.

Many experts at the organization «have let Mr. Ban know in no uncertain terms that his office has badly understated the scale of the drinking water crisis,» environmental analyst Roger Harrabin wrote earlier this month in his column for BBC News.

While state and federal officials continue to criticize each other for failing to guarantee safe drinking water, the question of exactly who is responsible for crises like in Flint, Michigan, lies at the root of the problem.

That could mean compromised drinking water akin to the crisis that struck Flint, Michigan, in 2014 when the city switched its water source to the highly salted Flint River.

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin - producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

While serious violations like those in the Flint, Michigan, crises are rare, ensuring reliable access to safe drinking water poses challenges for communities across the country, according to a recent study led by the University of California, Irvine.

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This crisis makes the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's commissioned report, Managing Lead in Drinking Water at Schools and Early Childhood Education Facilities, timely and even more important.

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Global water crises — from drought in the world's most productive farmlands to the hundreds of millions of peoples without access to safe drinking water — are among the biggest threats facing the planet over the next decade.

In the wake of the Flint, Mich. public water crisis, the Hood River County case highlights the need to protect community access to safe drinking water FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2016 CONTACT: Stiv Wilson 503.913.7381 [email protected] Aurora Del Val 971.678.4748 [email protected] Julia DeGraw 971.266.4528 [email protected] PORTLAND — The Story of Stuff Project, Food...

In the wake of the Flint, Michigan public water crisis, the Hood River County citizen - initiative highlights the need to protect community access to safe drinking water FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2016 CONTACT: Michael O'Heaney 510.684.6417 [email protected] Aurora Del Val 971.678.4748 [email protected] Julia DeGraw 971.266.4528 [email protected] PORTLAND — The Story of Stuff Project, Food &...

The report also features stories of First Nations leadership in resolving their communities» drinking water crises.

The ongoing lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan has shown not all water systems are safe from contamination — and, in fact, a recent analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found around 77 million Americans are served by water systems with violations of the Safe Drinking Waterwater systems are safe from contamination — and, in fact, a recent analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found around 77 million Americans are served by water systems with violations of the Safe Drinking Waterwater systems with violations of the Safe Drinking WaterWater Act.