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Legal Settlement Forces Agency to Protect Millions From Dangerous Parasites, Toxic Chemicals in Their Drinking Water

WASHINGTON (November 17, 2005) -- Public health advocates today reached an important agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ending years of delays in setting new safeguards against germs, parasites and toxic chemicals in drinking water across the country. As a result of the agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., EPA will adopt three new rules for municipal water systems by next year ensuring cleaner drinking water for all communities.

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Sealed doesn't always mean safe

By CHRISTINA LEE / Aggie Features Writer
Posted 11/16/2005

Water bottles are like iPods.

Whether riding the bus or strolling around on campus, it seems like everyone is carrying one around. Like the iPod, water bottles also come in mini sizes and attractive colors complete with appealing advertisements.

Whereas songs on an iPod come from a definitive location, the source and composition of bottled water isn't always known, accurate or safe.

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Editorial,
Bennington Banner
Friday, November 11

The state of New York can't leave well enough alone. Now it's going after farmers who produce apple cider, because 200 people got sick from "Macintosh's Revenge" in Peru, N.Y., last October. After the outbreak, the state stepped in with a new law that outlaws the sale of raw cider. The law goes into effect Jan. 8.

Farmers like James Perry of White Creek, N.Y., are now looking at a $13,500 to $15,000 expense for a UV machine or $20,000 to $90,000 pasteurization machine, just to make sure there's no cryptosporidium in their homemade, fresh cider.

Cryptosporidium is a bacteria that gets into food and water supplies from animal activity in a watershed area or through the introduction of sewage into a water supply.

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By MARCELA ROJAS
THE JOURNAL NEWS

SOUTHEAST - Several more swimmers were sickened by a parasite that may have contaminated an indoor pool on Route 22.

Wings over Water, a center where children take lessons and have birthday parties, closed last week at the recommendation of the Putnam County Health Department after two unrelated people, an adult and a child, were diagnosed with cryptosporidiosis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by a microscopic parasite called cryptosporidium. The organism is found in feces.

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Perhaps Kamloops This Week editor Christopher Foulds can be forgiven for his momentary mind melt that saw a caption on a recent photograph refer to the city's water system as being run "privately."

After all, he's new to the area and didn't live through the many cryptosporidium and giardia warnings, the boil-water advisories, the debate about adding fluoride, the do-we-need-water-metres referendum and the innumerable public meetings that led to the creation of the city's new water-filtration plant.

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ROCKFORD - Seven children and two employees at a Rockford Health System day-care facility and school contracted a parasite in recent weeks that can cause severe abdominal distress.

None of those who contracted the cryptosporidium parasite, which causes cryptosporidiosis, were hospitalized, according to the Winnebago County Health Department. The center is no longer believed to be at risk for the parasite. The cases were reported Sept. 12 to Oct. 3.

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