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Denver Water has found nearly 65,000 lead service lines in the city and is halfway through replacing them. New federal laws and financial help will speed this process up. But what is taking so long?
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Leaders from the Indigenous Resilience Center shared at the One Water Summit about their efforts to work with tribal communities on water audits, filtration systems, and other solutions.
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Harmful algal blooms are a major issue in water bodies across our region, and can be toxic to humans and animals. Some scientists have started using satellites to keep a better eye on them.
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There’s a lot of concern about PFAS chemicals that have seeped into waterways in the Mountain West. But some researchers are finding that bacteria can help clean them up.
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As the West grapples with a megadrought, its driest spell in at least 1,200 years, rising levels of arsenic — a known carcinogen — in Colorado’s San Luis Valley offer clues to what the future may hold.
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The Diné Household Water Survey, a first-of-its-kind two-year project led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, aims to accurately quantify the number of households without access to safe drinking water.
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An environmental group recently released its grades for how states are handling lead contamination in school drinking water – and half of the states in the Mountain West states are failing.