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Report: Warmer Climate Puts Water Supplies At Risk - July 21, 2010 - CBS News - A new report says more than 1,000 counties across the United States are at risk for potential water shortages by mid-century as warmer temperatures deplete supplies and demand for water rises.

Three waterborne diseases cost U.S. $539 million a year - July 14, 2010 - Reuters - The three diseases -- Legionnaires' disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis -- are caused by three very different microbes but what they have in common is they are spread by water, researchers told the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta.

N.J. residents urged to conserve drinking water during drought - July 7, 2010 - The Star-Ledger - The state is not in immediate danger of running out of drinking water, but the drought has put farms at risk.

Monterey area looks to sea for drinking water - July 4, 2010 - San Francisco Chronicle - By the end of 2014, most people on the Monterey Peninsula are likely to fill their glasses with water siphoned from the ocean and stripped of salt.

Millions in Bangladesh exposed to arsenic in drinking water - June 20, 2010 - CNN - A new study published in British medical journal The Lancet says that up to 77 million people in Bangladesh are being exposed to toxic levels of arsenic, potentially taking years or decades off their lives.

EPA Proposes Updating Drinking Water Rule to Better Protect Public Health - June 17, 2010 - EPA News Release - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to revise a national primary drinking water regulation to achieve greater public health protection against waterborne pathogens in the distribution systems of public water systems.

Nearly 75 Queens kids in hospital after drinking contaminated water at school - June 1, 2010 - The New York Daily News - Dozens of children complained that their stomachs hurt after sipping from water fountains in a new wing at Public School 20 in Flushing, the officials said.

CDC used bad data to judge DC water safety - May 20, 2010 - Associated Press  - Federal health officials knowingly used flawed data in a study that calmed public fears about lead in the District of Columbia's drinking water in 2004, according to a congressional investigation released Thursday.

Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer - May 7, 2010 - Associated Press - Radioactive water that leaked from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey.

NY ruling sets back gas drilling in watersheds - Apr. 23, 2010 - Reuters - New York state imposed new restrictions on shale gas drilling in watersheds for the cities of New York and Syracuse, citing concerns over drinking water safety and prompting victory calls from environmentalists.

Growing concern in the water - April 18, 2010 - Chicago Tribune - Despite growing health concerns about atrazine, an agricultural weedkiller sprayed on farm fields across the Midwest, most drinking water is tested for the chemical only four times a year -- so rarely that worrisome spikes of the chemical likely go undetected.

EPA to Streamline Drinking Water Regs, Tighten Standards for 4 Carcinogens - March 22, 2010 - The New York Times - U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has announced new strategies aimed at curbing contaminants in drinking water.

Evidence of Novel Waterborne Parechoviruses Associated with US Infant Deaths - March 2010 - Water Conditioning & Purification magazine. - Typically considered a ‘silent’ virus infection, recent studies indicate that at least certain types of waterborne parechoviruses are associated with infant disease and possibly sudden infant fatalities.

Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems Would Be Costly - Mar. 15, 2010 - New York Times. - Today, a significant water line bursts on average every two minutes somewhere in the country, according to a New York Times analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data.

Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A. - March 1, 2010 - The New York Times - Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators.

The DWRF 2010 Golf Tournament: Orlando, Florida on Sept. 20  - The 2010 DWRF Golf Tournament will take place on Monday, September, 2010 at the Shingle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, Florida. We are looking forward to another enjoyable day of golf!