EPA: 13 Percent of Airliner Water Unsafe
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WASHINGTON - Nearly one of every eight passenger airliners tested by the Environmental Protection Agency carried drinking water that fails agency standards because it contains coliform bacteria, the agency said Monday.    EPA enforcement chief Tom Skinner said passengers whose immune systems are compromised may want to avoid drinking water from airplane galleys or lavatories, although he noted that test results were preliminary...
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Tritium-laced water leaks from U.S. nuclear power plants in the past decade caused no health risks to the public, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report issued on Wednesday.
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The government and a dozen airlines struck a deal Tuesday requiring sanitation improvements and increased testing of drinking water aboard aircraft after officials found evidence of harmful bacteria in the water of one in every eight planes tested.
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"There's several feet of water. It's contaminated with sewage and everything. We can't wade through it because it's not safe"  A man tries to avoid getting wet as the banks of the River Aire in Leeds city centre, northern England, are broken by heavy rain fall, Monday June 25, 2007. via The Macon Telegraph
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Now there&#39;s something else for airline passengers to worry about -- the safety of their drinking water. New tests show nearly one of out every eight passenger airliners flying in the United States has drinking
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Drinking water on commercial airliners will be checked more frequently after the Environmental Protection Agency found evidence of harmful bacteria in the water of one of every eight planes tested.
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WASHINGTON -- The government needs to do a better job monitoring and inspecting hazardous materials shipped aboard airlines, according to a report released Friday by the Transportation Department&#39;s inspector general.
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13 dots spook superstitious fliers LogoWatch Brussels Airlines recently found itself in some unexpected turbluence when superstitious passengers complained about its spiffing logo.â¦
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The type of ship that spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River after something ripped a hole in its hull is scheduled to be barred from US waters within seven years because of safety concerns.
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Nearly one of every eight passenger airliners flying in the United States carries drinking water that fails Environmental Protection Agency standards because it contains coliform bacteria, the agency said Monday.
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(CP) - New antibiotic-resistant pathogens, airborne mercury and urban sprawl are threatening the health of the Great Lakes and millions of people who live around the bodies of fresh water, a report to the Canadian and U.S. governments concludes.
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Naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water poses a growing global health risk as large numbers of people unknowingly consume unsafe levels of the chemical element, researchers said on Wednesday.
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NASA yesterday released partial results of a massive air-safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue, problems with air-traffic controllers, airport security, and the layouts of runways and taxiways.
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Recent tests by the Environmental Protection Agency suggest there might be problems with drinking water on airplanes.
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PARIS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Hundreds of flights by subsidised airlines in  Europe  are endangering the global climate and the ozone layer.  For now, they fly  free of environmental regulations.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Pilots and air traffic controllers have warned that shoddy safety systems could be putting passengers at risk in South America's two largest countries, prompting an international outcry for rapid overhauls of the organizations that manage air transit in Argentina and Brazil.
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Asking for bottled water or a canned drink aboard an airliner might be the safest way to fly. Coliform bacteria are showing up in more airliners than last summer when the government first took steps toward requiring sanitation improvements.