drinking water
Canada's Waterless Communities: Neskantaga
In this episode, VICE heads to the remote Neskantaga First Nation in Northern Ontario where after 20 years under a boil water advisory, they have slipped down the federal government's priority list for safe drinking water from four to 19.
Canada's Waterless Communities: Shoal Lake 40
Canada has the world's second-largest supply of fresh water, but 169 First Nation communities have limited or no access to it.
Aboriginal Community in Canada Declares Emergency Over Unsafe Drinking Water
The drinking water issues in Grassy Narrows First Nation are not new. The community has been on a boil water advisory for more than a year. Across the country, dozens more indigenous communities live under similar conditions.
Conservative MP Confuses Party’s Own Spin with Commitment to Fund Shoal Lake 40’s Freedom Road
The Conservatives still don't support a road that would help give a First Nation a water treatment plant.
Flooded Corpses Are Leaking Formaldehyde into Northern Ireland's Groundwater
Zombies aren't the only way the dead can fuck with the living.
The Oil Industry Is Pumping Toxic Chemicals Into California's Aquifers
Environmental groups are suing the state, claiming it is allowing the industry to pump fracking wastewater into below ground drinking water supplies.
A High School Pumped Reclaimed Sewage Water into a Drinking Fountain for More Than a Year
Luckily the level of dookie molecules in the water was relatively low.
This Lake Shouldn’t Be Blue (Excerpt from ‘Toxic Waste in the US: Coal Ash’)
In this excerpt, VICE News correspondent Neha Shastry visits Little Blue Run, the largest coal ash impoundment in the US, and speaks to a resident about the environmental effects of this big blue toxic lake.
Contaminated Drinking Water (Extra Scene from 'Toxic Waste in the US: Coal Ash')
In this extra scene, a couple living near a coal ash pond in Dukeville, North Carolina, speak about how finding out that their drinking water is contaminated shone a new light on the illnesses in their family and in the neighborhood over the years.
A Giant Hole Is Swallowing a Town in Peru
Cerro de Pasco is an environmental and urban catastrophe thanks to the massive polymetal mine that sits in the middle of town.
Cuomo Administration Edited and Delayed Scientific Report on Natural Gas Fracking
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to focus on science, not politics, in deciding whether to allow natural gas drilling in the state.
Voss Water Is Bullshit
"Voss" could be the name of a cult European fashion designer. It could be the name of a guy in an 80s synth-pop trio. But it's not. It's water—overpriced, overrated, bottled water.