It reached a crescendo in Pavillion, Wyoming where EPA has been investigating whether the fracking process polluted the drinking water there.

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To avoid people drinking polluted water, portable water testing kits were introduced, designed to monitor the countries 1.3 million wells.

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More children are drinking polluted water and breathing polluted air.

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Some of that polluted runoff winds up in drinking water, posing special health problems for children and pregnant women.

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However, that is something that some civic and environmental groups say is damaging drinking water supplies and allowing polluted water to resurface.

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It aims to establish a platform for exchange of knowledge with respect to methods for characterisation of colloidal and particulate matter in these systems and to cover the technological aspects of particulate matter in different water treatment processes such as drinking water, wastewater and landfill polluted waters.

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