Water Magazine

Category: Water and Health

• Notes from the field

  Perspectives from a Boat: Exploring the Chesapeake Bay

  04/10/2015

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  

  Baltimore, Maryland This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit the Chesapeake Bay for the first time, with Dr. Grace Brush and her ecology class. Led by members from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, we enjoyed a boat ride across...

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• Report

  Investigating the Possible Link Between Arsenic Exposure and Metabolism and Diabetes

  03/12/2015

  Grace Foster

  Water and Health

  

  Diabetes has rapidly moved to the forefront of health problems in 21st century America. Understanding the vast number of risk factors that contribute to the quickly increasing number of individuals who develop this disease is crucial to...

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• Notes from the field

  Countering Risk with Resilience – Tackling Harmful Algal Blooms with Robust Water Treatment

  01/27/2015

  Holly Johnson

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  Water Infrastructure

  

  In early August 2014, a harmful algal bloom (HAB) in the western basin of Lake Erie produced toxins that, due to their inability to be treated by local water treatment facilities, rendered drinking water unsafe for nearly 500,000...

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• Opinion

  The People’s Climate March: A Catalyst for Environmental Change

  10/07/2014

  Water and Health

  Water in the Environment

  Water and Energy

  

  They marched, and the world took notice.  Over 400,000 people rallied on the streets of New York City in the People’s Climate March on September 21 to urge for action against climate change.  As the largest climate...

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• Notes from the field

  Addressing menstrual hygiene barriers to girls’ education in Rwanda

  09/30/2014

  Meagan Hawes

  Water and Health

  

  On a hillside in rural Rwanda, we dance.  With arms raised, like the horns of sacred cows, we shuffle then clap, fifty pairs of hard-worked hands beating together.  Afternoon shadows stretch across the rolling hills.  The...

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