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> From: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [content_management] Toxic Drinking Water in Puerto Rico
> Date: March 14, 2018 at 1:28:00 PM EDT
> To: michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com
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> Mike,
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> The Surfriders in Puerto Rico are tracking some beach water quality locations on a map . . .
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> http://www.surfrider.org/blue-water-task-force/chapter/4
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> Kathy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdmcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>
> To: Walter Meyer <walter@localofficelandscape.com>; Content Management - Global <content_management@m.resiliencesystem.org>
> Cc: Maria Rodriguez <maria@floridaimmigrant.org>; Carissa Caban <carissacaban1@gmail.com>; Otto Flores <Otto@WavesForWater.org>; Jose <Jose@wavesforwater.org>; Robert McQueen <robert@wavesforwater.org>; Ethan Lovell <ethan@wavesforwater.org>; Antar Jutla <antarpreet.jutla@mail.wvu.edu>; Rita Colwell <rcolwell@umiacs.umd.edu>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 7:18 am
> Subject: Re: [content_management] Toxic Drinking Water in Puerto Rico
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> Walter,
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> We have started to work with Waves to Water and Surfrider in Puerto Rico on this issue through the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust. We are tracking the water filter distributions throughout the island on GIS. However, we were originally providing filters that were focused on reducing exposure to biological contaminants, not chemical toxins. We may have to change our filtration strategies if our further assessments match the Democracy Now statement below.
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> The more we study the water problem in Puerto Rico, the worse it gets. We are working on rapid, field-based gene radar chip tests strategies now. We may also recommend metagenomic studies to understand the full range of biological pathogens we may be dealing with.
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> Mike
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> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
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> Coordinator
> Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance
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> Chairman
> Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.&n bsp;
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> Executive Director
> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
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> Cell: 202-468-7899
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> http://resiliencesystem.org <http://resiliencesystem.org/>
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> On Mar 13, 2018, at 8:04 AM, Walter LocalOfficeLandscape <walter@localofficelandscape.com <mailto:walter@localofficelandscape.com>> wrote:
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> Perhaps we should be distributing bone char filters in addition to solar energy?
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> ht tps://www.uswatersystems.com/systems/filters/whole-house-backwashing-filters/bone-char-backwashing-filters <https://www.uswatersystems.com/systems/filters/whole-house-backwashing-filters/bone-char-backwashing-filters>
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> Walter Meyer-Rodriguez ASLA, LEED-AP
> Professor Parsons New School
> Local Office Landscape Architecture
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> On Mar 13, 2018, at 7:54 AM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>> wrote:
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> PRRS
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> water, pollution, petrochemical political economy
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> https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/9/toxic_coal_ash_being_dumped_in <https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/9/toxic_coal_ash_being_dumped_in>
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> "Well, what we’re seeing in Puerto Rico at the moment is really the culmination of a long-standing drinking water crisis that has in part been contributed to by these coal ash sites and by these plentiful Superfund sites. Even befor e Maria, Puerto Ricans had the worst drinking water quality of any state or territory in the nation: 99.5 percent of Puerto Ricans were served by drinking water in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Around 70 percent of Puerto Ricans were served by water sources that violated health base standards, so that had unlawfully high levels of contaminants or weren’t being treated in accordance with federal standards. Those contaminants included coliform bacteria and disinfection byproducts, but also the kind of volatile organic compounds that you would expect to see from leaching from these kind of Superfund sites and coal ash deposits."
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