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		<title>Homeland Security to Investigate Attacks on City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEST MILFORD, NJ &#8212; Homeland Security agents and township utilities staff today are reviewing more than 15 apparent attacks on local water and sewage facilities since summer that, in some instances, shut down water service and caused sewage overflows into the street, according to the system&#8217;s staff. The saboteurs have shut off power to water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poison Contaminates Water Supply Tanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIA &#8212;  Police are investigating the deliberate poisoning of two drinking water supply tanks at Marshall&#8217;s Lagoon, Forest Glen. The highly toxic herbicide Diuron, which has serious side effects if ingested, was detected in two 5000-litre tanks on the property.  An on-site caretaker will know today whether the persistent bowel and stomach ailment that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Supply Shut Off for Three Towns in MA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HINGHAM, Mass. &#8212; Authorities shutdown a water source that supplies water to three Massachusetts towns on Wednesday. Accord Pond serves Hingham, Hull and a portion of Cohasset. It was shutdown after a resident reported seeing a man throw something into the water. The company that takes water from the pond insists that the water is fine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation, Water Quality and the Fukushima Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FUKUSHIMA, Japan &#8211; On March 11, 2011, Japan’s Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant withstood shaking from the fourth largest earthquake recorded worldwide in over one hundred years. However, the 19 foot-high seawall separating the facility from potential oceanic onslaughts could not withstand the tsunami that followed. The plant flooded, electrical power to the cooling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Supply in Massachusetts Contaminated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOMERSET, Mass. &#8211; Residents of Somerset, Massachusetts, are being told not to drink tap water for at least a couple of days because a lawn-care company may have inadvertently tainted the town’s water supply with hydro seeding material, WFXT 25 Boston reported June 1. The town selectman said the company, contracted by the state, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two killed and raw waste released after wall collapses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Two employees of the Gatlinburg wastewater treatment plant were found dead after a 40-foot-high concrete wall fell on them at about 9:00 a.m. yesterday, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.  Rescue workers discovered the bodies of John D. Eslinger, 53, and Don A. Storey, 44, while searching through the rubble yesterday afternoon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wastewater treatment operator arrested on terrorism charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GILBERT, Ariz. — Last Friday, an employee at the Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant turned off several major operating systems in an effort to sabotage the utility, KPHO CBS 5 News reported. The only operator working the midnight shift, 43-year-old Robert Olson walked through the plant armed with a handgun, turning off systems in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contamination protection covered with new insurance plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two new contamination insurance products have been released to the water utility market, which have been created to cover the costs associated with accidental or malicious contamination events. Lis Stedman looks at the benefits this new insurance holds for water utilities. Insurance brokers Marsh and Aon are both offering coverage to water utilities.  UK utility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chlorine content reaches three times normal limit in Florida community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — The chlorine content of drinking water in the Springfield community near Jacksonville, Fla., soared to three times the normal amount after a malfunction at a nearby water treatment plant, News4jax.com reported. Residents started out just smelling the difference, but soon found their clothes to be ruined due to the chemical bleaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hach Water Quality Testing Equipment Aids Haiti Relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$124,000 in Hach products funded by employee, company and customer donations Loveland, Colorado, January, 2011 — In the year since the earthquake in Haiti, Hach Company has donated over $124,000 in water quality testing equipment to the devastated country. To raise the funding for this equipment, Hach employees donated money and hosted a bake sale [...]]]></description>
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