Animal Waste Gets in Water
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By TONY WALL; ARNOLD, Karen  UNTREATED ANIMAL effluent from a meat works leaked into Te Kuiti's water supply yesterday, prompting health authorities to warn residents to boil drinking water and stay clear of infected waterways.
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The untreated urban sewage and effluents that flow into the Great Lakes each year are threatening a critical ecosystem that supplies water to millions of people, according to a study by a Canadian environmental group.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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NORCO, Calif. - Rowdy, a 4-year-old horse, got sick after splashing through the Santa Ana River on a training ride...
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MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The Dow Chemical Company and The Glad Products Company today announced the donation of 380,000 trash bags to The Ocean Conservancy for use in the Conservancy's 21st annual International Coastal Cleanup day this coming Saturday, September 16th.
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Shhh. Don&#39;t tell anyone, but I have a bird bath in my back yard. Worse, it&#39;s filled with water. Standing water, if you know what I mean.
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Untreated sewage pouring into the world's seas and oceans is polluting their water and coastlines and endangering the health and welfare of the people and animals that inhabit them, according to a bleak new U.N. report released Wednesday on the threats to the world's marine environments.
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 11--GRASS VALLEY-A failure in the city's sewage system Sunday caused about 1,200 gallons of effluent to overflow from a manhole into Little Wolf Creek.
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By Angela Haupt  In  just three hours one day last September, volunteers scouring international coastlines and waterways collected more than 7 million pounds of trash -- about the same as the weight of 30 blue whales.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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By Gavin Off, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 29--ATHENS, Ohio -- A stream of liquid ran from the plastic trash bag that Zodiac Maslin held outstretched like a dirty diaper.   Then the Ohio University senior set it down, peered inside and announced that its contents looked good.
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By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Mar. 12--Second of two parts   When the waters of the Forge River turned cloudy and rank, and the fish began to die, many Mastic residents figured sewage was to blame.   In a way, they were right.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  May 24--About 10,000 gallons of sewage overflowed from a manhole Tuesday at Healy Point Country Club, Freddie Wiggins, director of the Jones County Water and Sewer Department, said Wednesday.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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By Guan Xiaofeng  Experts have warned of environmental pollution from increased animal husbandry, as the country became the world's top meat and egg producer last year.
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ENCAMPMENT, Wyo. - Around 60 rotting wild game and domestic livestock carcasses were removed from an abandoned meat-processing plant and buried in the Saratoga landfill.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of an unprecedented drought by removing life- choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline.