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Meat-eaters devour world's water
- John Vidal, Guardian Weekly, 3rd September, 2004.
Stream tested over E.coli scare
- BBC News Online, 2nd September, 2004.
Lead scare at Kirkland schools
- Jeff Switzer, King County Journal, 1st September, 2004.
Water 'wake-up call' given by UN
- Imogen Foulkes, BBC News, 26th August, 2004.
Stay calm everyone, there's Prozac in the drinking water
- Mark Townsend, The Observer, 8th August, 2004.
Storm sewage kills fish in Thames
- BBC News Online, 4th August, 2004.
Water pollution cases rise by 25%
- Carl Butler, Daily Post, 27th July, 2004.
Water good way to
cool down
- BBC News Online, 16th July, 2004.
Tourism drains Mediterranean water supply
- Estelle Shirbon, Reuters UK, 15th July, 2004.
Fears grow over rising carbon dioxide levels in water
- Roger Highfield, The Telegraph, 14th July 2004.
Final warning on Ulster's 'dirty' water
- Simon Taylor, The Belfast Telegraph, 14th July 2004.
EU issues water warnings
- Green Consumer Guide.com, 12th July 2004.
Tap water can make you FAT, say experts
- Caroline Wheeler, Sunday Mercury, 11th Jul 2004.
Water shock - Revealing tests on East Anglia's water
- Lisa Horton, The Advertiser, Norwich ed., 9th
July 2004.
Water pollution is the big challenge facing us all
- Steve Dube, The Western Mail, 29th June 29 2004.
All-clear for boiling villagers
- BBC News Online, 25th June
2004.
Minister
launches war on water pollution
- Amanda Brown, PA News,
Scotsman.com,
17th June 2004.
Jordan appeals to save Dead Sea
- BBC News Online, 2nd June, 2004.
Coke's water bomb
- Bill Garrett, BBC Money Programme,
16th June 2004.
Bacteria in water at special school
- Helen Markovic, Trinity Mirror, 9th
June 2004.
Water supplies are turned brown
- BBC News Online, 19th May, 2004
"Water will be more important than oil this century," says Boutros Boutros Ghali
- BBC News Online, 10 June, 2003.
Water pollutants investigation
- BBC News Online, 19th February, 2004.
Water firm tops pollution list
- BBC News Online, 8th
January, 2004.
Bottled water 'may cause illness'
- BBC News Online, 3rd October, 2003.
Minister rejects fluoride by force
- BBC News Online, 9th September, 2003
Truth Decay - Challenging New Labour's propaganda on water fluoridation
- Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, Green Party of England & Wales, 2nd ed.,
revised August 2003.(PDF
file)
Hope for water softeners on eczema
- NetDoctor News, 25th June 2003.
Asthma rise 'link' to pool chemicals
- BBC News Online, 28th May, 2003.
Plans for fluoride 'in all water'
- BBC News Online, 12th May, 2003.
Indian villagers crippled by fluoride
- BBC News Online, 7th April, 2003.
Water scare 'could strike any time'
- BBC News Online, 8th August, 2002.
Cryptosporidium strikes again
- BBC News Online, 4th August, 2002.
Washing behind eczema rise
- BBC News
Online, 13th May,
2002.
Blindness risk for contact lens wearers
- BBC News Online, 23rd April,
2002.
Softer water 'could ease eczema'
- BBC News Online, 26th March, 2002.
44 people ill from
cryptosporidium
contaminated
water
- CBCNews,
7th
May, 2001.
Bottled water 'a waste of money'
- BBC News Online, 3rd May, 2001.
Septic tank linked to bug outbreak
- BBC News Online, 6th
September, 2000.
E.coli in water kills seven
- CBC News, May, 2000.
Sheep infect drinking water
- BBC News Online, 18th April, 2000.
Eczema link to hard water
- BBC News Online,
14th August, 1998.
Sydney's taps prove a turn-off
- BBC News Online, 1st August, 1998.
The Aral Sea crisis
- BBC News Online, 27th March, 1998.
Fields of filth
- BBC News Online, 26th March, 1998.
Outbreak of toxoplasmosis associated with municipal drinking water
- The Lancet, 19th July, 1997.
Over
a 100 die and 400,000 sick after cryptosporidium found in tap water
- CNN.com,
2nd September,
1996.
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