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Can you get cancer from tap water? New study says even "safe" drinking water poses risk - USA TODAY
Tap water not as safe as you think - according to Park Foundation study
Date: September 19, 2019
“The vast majority of community water systems meet legal standards, … yet the latest research shows that contaminants present in the water at those concentrations — perfectly legal — can still harm human health.”
Something In The Air - The Nature Of Things Article & Episode - CBC
Date: Feb 17, 2019
“Matthew, featured in Something in the Air, a documentary from The Nature of Things, is a busy, athletic 10-year-old. He loves playing outside and just tried out for hockey. But he also has asthma and had to move because he couldn’t breathe in the city.
Matthew didn’t live in Delhi or Beijing — his family had to move from Toronto.”
Watch the episode from CBC here.
You can also visit www.somethingintheair.ca for links to anything referred in the video.
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Here’s a few things that stuck out to us:
Mathew & Family - Asthma - Toronto (Timestamp: 2:10)
“Surprisingly Canada has one of the highest rates of asthma in the world, it’s the number 1 cause of hospital admissions for kids.”
Jeffery Gettleman - Moving to India (Timestamp: 11:20)
”We stay inside a lot, we wear masks when we go outside on heavily polluted days, we have an air filter in our car, we have an air filter in every room of this apartment, and we just spend so much time inside.”
“3,000 people die from air pollution every day in India”
Dogs getting Dementia - Mexico City (Timestamp: 18:30)
“It’s not just us, bad air effects everything that breathes, and that includes our closest companions; dogs”
Canada Study - Higher Risk of Dementia When Living Near Main Roads (Timestamp: 26:03)
Ultra-Fine Particles: Breathing In Particles That Can Go Inside Bloodstream (Timestamp: 30:00)
Something In The Air - CBC
Date: Feb 17, 2019
“According to research from the World Health Organization, more than 80 per cent of people living in urban zones that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels exceeding the WHO’s limits.
WHO adds that air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to health, causing one in every nine deaths annually around the world.”
Chatham Dryer Fire Causes $80K In Damages
“The Chatham-Kent fire department says a dryer was to blame for a fire early Sunday morning.”
“She says firefighters quickly put out the fire and prevented it from spreading beyond the laundry room. It is reported that there was heavy smoke damage throughout the rest of the unit.”
“Damages are estimated at $80,000.”
Dryer fire at 349 Sandy St. in Chatham. February 4, 2018. (Photo courtesy of CKFES.)
Dryer fires a real hazard that can happen at a moment's notice
“Stevens said his dryer was from the late '80s or early '90s and while he cleaned the lint trap frequently and the vent occasionally, he never knew lint could build up inside the dryer.”
"I didn't realize there was actually a gigantic amount of lint inside the dryer itself," he said. "The fire department opened it up for me and you could see that there was a massive amount of lint in there."
"If you haven't been cleaning your vents and you're just listening to this now, in all likelihood, it's probably a mess inside your dryer. And to be safe you should be looking inside or having a qualified technician look inside and cleaning out what's in there because that is just going to continue to build up over time," Longley said.”
Halifax Regional Fire officials say they respond, on average, to 10 dryer fires a year. (Cliff Simpson/CBC)
The Polluted Brain - Science Magazine Article
Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer's, dementia
Date: Jan 26, 2017
"...researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada reported in The Lancet that among 6.6 million people in the province of Ontario, those living within 50 meters of a major road—where levels of fine pollutants are often 10 times higher than just 150 meters away—were 12% more likely to develop dementia than people living more than 200 meters away."