There is no credible data indicating that fracturing of shale formations has ever contaminated drinking water.
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Scientists have just unveiled an easy-to-use, inexpensive method for removing arsenic from contaminated drinking water using chopped up bits of discarded plastic bottles.
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The study also cited other factors as contributing to the plight of the urban poor such as improper sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and urban pollution.
Diarrheal illnesses from contaminated drinking water could be a major problem, as could respiratory problems among evacuated people kept in close conditions, such as in refugee camps.
The failure in January 2000 of the Baia Mare dam in Romania contaminated the drinking water of 2.5m people.
Norovirus spreads easily via contaminated food or drinking water, but a more insidious route is from a person touching a surface contaminated with the residue of stool or vomit from an infected person and then touching his or her mouth before hand-washing.
Diarrheal diseases caused by drinking contaminated water kill 1.5 million children under 5 each year.
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Drinking contaminated water can lead to cholera, vomiting, diarrhea and other ailments that can quickly incapacitate and kill.
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It is transmitted through contaminated food, drinking water and faeces.
Both the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern about reports of diarrheal diseases among children in southern Iraq being on the rise due to their drinking contaminated water.
For example, the new EPA guide refers to International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines that suggest intervention is not necessary until drinking water is contaminated with radioactive iodine 131 at a concentration of 81, 000 picocuries per liter.
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The EPA has never found a single instance of drinking water supplies being contaminated by hydraulic fracturing.
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Drinking E. coli-contaminated water can lead to serious illness and death.
Further, although thousands of CBM wells are fractured annually, EPA did not find confirmed evidence that drinking water wells have been contaminated by hydraulic fracturing fluid injection into CBM wells.
Over a decade ago, scientists in Bangladesh discovered that drinking water drawn from wells was contaminated with arsenic.
Last fall, one child died and more than 60 people in the Western United States and Canada became sick after drinking unpasteurized Odwalla apple juice that was contaminated with the E. coli bacteria.
You get it by drinking water or eating food that's been contaminated by an infected person.
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