Shanghai authorities have stepped up tap water tests and assure residents that the tap water is safe to use.
When the second adult died, the tap water had tested positive for this protozoan and a Neti Pot was found on the premises.
Robert Durand, a spokesman for the prison, said prisoners are provided with bottled water and that the tap water is safe to drink.
He cited the outbreaks of pfiesteria in Maryland and Virginia and the 131 deaths in Milwaukee from tap water because toxins were in the water.
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Bottled water often comes from the same source as tap water, where that is available (sometimes at a hundredth of the price), though it should at least be clean.
It's on the farm of Gunnar Ingvarsson, the 74-year-old who decided 20 years ago to tap the boiling hot water spewing out of the ground.
Mr Gumpert told the jury one of the workers lived in a horsebox with 10 others and the only washing facilities were a cold water tap in the yard and a shared toilet.
New York City, which touts the high quality of its tap water, offers portable fountains at events around the city.
Engineers restored power to some reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant over the weekend, although new concerns about food contamination appeared after radiation levels were detected in tap water near the complex.
Dr. Fred Cerise says the city's tap water is not yet up to drinking standards.
Tokyo's governor recommended that babies be kept away from the city's tap water as it contained higher levels of radioactive iodine.
An official in Pingjiang tells Global Times that the government has hired a group of environmental science experts to examine the quality of the region's tap water to reassure residents.
In fact, in many cases, the degree of exposure to toxic chemicals in tap water by inhalation is comparable to the exposure that would result from drinking the stuff.
There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
But there are numerous factors that could tilt the scales in favor of tap water.
If that's the case, you can just rinse the device under a tap of water.
Infrared sensors pinpoint hand positions and release water from the tap stem.
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Inside the apartment, Cal pulled a bottle of wine from his coat, but Mandy shook her head, poured them glasses of water from the tap.
The whole point is that the amount of radioactivity people outside the evacuation zone are exposed to is likely to be small, even if we include the amounts in food and tap water.
In fact, the amount of bottled water Americans drink has risen nearly every year for more than two decades, while the estimates of how much tap water people drink has fluctuated up and down during that time.
The Japanese government now says that levels of radioactive contamination beyond the legal health limits have been found in tap water in a town nearly 30-miles (46-kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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For the same reason, if your tap water is treated with chlorine, install a chlorine-filtering showerhead.
Among all of China's 660-odd cities, only one small city of 200, 000, Lianyuan in Hunan Province, can claim to provide clean drinking water straight from the tap.
Few of us are fortunate enough to enjoy clean municipal tap water -- the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled filters and wasteful bottled H2O.
Limescale in hard water allows the growth of amoebae and the infection seems to be caused when wearers allow tap water to come into contact with their lenses when storing them or washing and showering.
Consumers can reduce the amount of water through direct action - by applying a water-saving showerhead, shutting off the tap during teeth brushing, by not disposing of medicines, paints or other pollutants down the sink etc.
If all goes according to plan, by the year 2001, the city's sewage water will be treated and recycled right into the drinking tap.
Those served by the reservoir were warned to boil their tap water before drinking or using it to prepare food, brush teeth or bathe babies.
Residents near where pigs were being pulled from the river went days in January without tap water when a chemical transporter leaked benzene into a Huangpu River tributary.
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