World Water

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Daniel Pipes • Tue 2015 May 12, 10:50am

…With a unique, magnificent exception, much of the Middle East is running out of water due to such maladies as population growth, short-sighted dictators, distorted economic incentives, and infrastructure-destroying warfare.…

Wells near Okla. E. coli outbreak test positive

seattletimes.nwsource.com • Fri 2009 Feb 27, 9:11pm

Seventeen private water wells have tested positive for E. coli bacteria near a northeastern Oklahoma town where an E. coli outbreak last summer killed one man and sickened hundreds.... Health officials have said a restaurant called the Country Cottage was the source of the outbreak in Locust Grove, but Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said this month that it could have been the result of contamination from nearby poultry farms....