This Week in Water for November 19, 2017
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Fertilizers : A Ticking Time Bomb for Water? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. At the COP23 climate change conference in Bonn, 27 governments agree to phase out coal, while the U.S. promotes it. The worldwide nitrate problem will continue to pollute water, even after fertilizers are curtailed. The UN warns about mine waste concluding that better protections are needed for communities downstream. TransCanada had to shut down its Keystone Pipeline after 210,000 gallons of tar sands oil leaked into South Dakota farmland. The leaking pipeline is not the Keystone XL, which the Obama Administration had disapproved, but the Trump Administration later allowed. World Toilet Day 2017 highlights gender inequality.
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