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PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode December 17, 2017
On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 17, the GOP’s tax bill is expected to pass and get signed by President Trump this week. And, in the second of our two-part series on drinking water, unregulated chemicals alarm residents near the…
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PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode December 16, 2017
On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 16, more details emerge about the Republican tax bill as it nears a final vote next week, and how the lack of electricity in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is impacting life on the…
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Long Island residents worry their tap water is unsafe
While most of the country’s tap water is tested for hundreds of pollutants, including volatile chemicals, pesticides, metals and bacteria, it is not always safe to drink. In the first of a two-part series, NewsHour Weekend’s Hari Sreenivasan reports from…
2.1 million Americans use water wells with hazardous levels of arsenic, USGS estimates
While arsenic is an ancient health threat, this analysis offers one of the first nationwide appraisals for the groundwater contaminant and spotlights regulatory gaps in the nation’s water infrastructure.
The Flint, Michigan, lead contamination disaster in 2015 raised awareness about the dangers of unsafe water. A new documentary, “Troubled Water,” created by journalism students at Arizona State University, explores how communities around the nation are affected, and how grassroots…
It’s been almost a month since Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico, killing at least 48 people, but citizens on the island are still coming to grips with the scale of the devastation. William Brangham speaks with David Begnaud of CBS…
Water may become unaffordable for a third of American households within the next five years, according to a Michigan State University study.
After years of waiting, veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina may now be able to receive a portion of government disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion.
A new report says that cancer-causing agent chromium-6 may flow in the drinking water of 200 million Americans. What does that mean for public health?…
