By Claire Bernish Image: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff members sample a monitoring well for contaminants from hydraulic fracturing. A Stanford study in Pavillion, Wyoming,…
By Cassius Kamarampi Cincinnati city officials sent out letters to 16,000 residents this week, informing them that much of the city’s water transporting pipes are…
By Spiro US public water infrastructure is woefully dangerous to human health. With the suspected cancer-causing chemical PFOA being phased out in the U.S., it…
By Janet Phelan If you wonder how the US could be supporting Turkey that is waging a veritable war on its civil Kurdish population, maybe…
By Gaye Levy Over the past few days, something has become very clear to me: Backdoor Survival readers are a community. I have been reading…
By Joshua Krause In America, it was long believed that as a developed nation, the safety of our municipal water was a given. Dirty water…
By Mac Slavo There’s no denying that water is among your most critical assets. But going off grid, you won’t find it automatically ready and…
By John Vibes Two former executives with the bankrupt Freedom Industries were sentenced to one month in federal prison for their responsibility in the chemical…
By Rosanne Lindsay With renewed interest on the issue of lead poisoning based on high lead levels in children in Flint, Michigan, exposed to toxins…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Consumers purchase bottled water for many reasons. One, perhaps, is they think they are buying spring water that is not contaminated…
By John Vibes Activist Christopher G. Wahmhoff, 37, is facing charges after he made a Facebook post referencing the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Wahmhoff…
By Claire Bernish “It’s outrageous that this sort of government-made catastrophe would happen anywhere in the United States,” Representative Justin Amash said Wednesday as he…
By Chiqui Perez Despite the outpour of aid by concerned citizens all over the United States, the people of Flint still continue to face one…
By John Vibes Governor Rick Snyder is surely one of the most hated people in Flint, if not the entire state of Michigan, and it…