Poisonous Brew Can Seep From Wet Farms
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 25--Bill Conklin has no trouble predicting Columbus' next drinking-water alert.   All that's needed, he said, is a lot of rain and fertilized farm fields.
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By Joe DePriest, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 12--The city of Mount Holly had a wastewater spill of about 3,600 gallons into the Catawba River on Feb.9.   The spill came from a separated above-ground line behind a residence at 113 Thatcher Place in the Riverfront subdivision.
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ATLANTA - After one of the driest springs in recent history, and looking  ahead to a parched weather forecast, Georgia farmers, environmental  officials and local authorities face some tough decisions about using water.
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By Liu Weifeng  A serious outbreak of algae in Anhui's Chaohu Lake is unlikely mainly due to imminent rains which dilute the concentration of the fast-spreading, foul-smelling plant, a senior environmental official said yesterday.
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By Audra Ang Associated Press  BEIJING - Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday.
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Bacteria, algae and fungi that manage to survive in toxic Montana lake left behind by a century of copper mining produce unique compounds to survive in the poisoned, acid environment. Some may inhibit cancer growth. And toxic dumps elsewhere may be incubating biomarvels of their own.
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RACINE, Wis. - A man may have found out firsthand just how nasty the competition is between the world's two biggest beermakers.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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(National-NBC) Oct. 11, 2004 - Spores from fungus in a house damaged by water or outdoors in decaying plants certainly might cause a sneeze or two, but a study at the Mayo Clinic is leading researchers down a different fungal path.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.
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Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people &#151; a Mennonite farmer who climbed into the pit to unclog a pipe, and then, in frantic rescue attempts that failed, his wife, two young daughters and a farmhand.
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By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Dec. 8--A Plainview Water District lawsuit over the looming threat a fuel spill allegedly poses to drinking water can proceed even though the district's wells have yet to be contaminated, a State Supreme Court judge has ruled.
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By Guan Xiaofeng  Huge algae outbreaks again pose a threat to drinking water supply from Taihu and Chaohu, two of China's major freshwater lakes.
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"There's several feet of water. It's contaminated with sewage and everything. We can't wade through it because it's not safe"  A man tries to avoid getting wet as the banks of the River Aire in Leeds city centre, northern England, are broken by heavy rain fall, Monday June 25, 2007. via The Macon Telegraph
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been eaten by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday.
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At least seven people have died and thousands of others have fallen sick after drinking contaminated water in an industrial city in eastern Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.