Minister of Agriculture and Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has expressed concern regarding the tourism industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay,
The end of lead pipes: An engineerâs take on the historic national effort to eliminate them
Published: Oct. 29, 2024 âą By Yvaine Ye Title image: The scene at the Replacing Lead Pipes for Clean Drinking Water event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 October 2024. (Credit: USEPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this month that it will require utilities to replace all lead drinking water pipes serving customers in the country within the next decade, marking the most aggressive regulation on lead in drinking water to date.
The NGO analyzed a sample of almost 150 cans from 15 European supermarkets. One in 10 cans tested showed mercury levels above the authorized limits for fresh tuna.
Hundreds of Benton Harbor children ask Sixth Circuit to revive claims over lead poisoning from drinking water
The case has similar characteristics to the much more publicized Flint, Michigan, water crisis, but among its notable differences is what caused the tainted water.
Especially if the importing country âhas low capacity for monitoring tradeâ. South Africans exposed to high levels of lead chromates despite legal limits â children most at risk
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has revealed that the police have arrested four suspected believed to be behind the food poisoning incident in Gauteng. File picture: David Ritchie/Independent Newspapers
The rate of food poisoning incidents involving children across South Africa and more importantly the untimely deaths of six who ate contaminate snacks is alarming.
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