{"id":7748,"date":"2014-02-03T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:17:24","slug":"west-virginia-water-woes-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2014\/02\/03\/west-virginia-water-woes-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Water Woes – How You Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The West Virginia water woes<\/a> continue, with more chemicals being discovered in the already contaminated Elk River.\u00a0 At least ten thousand gallons of MCHM leaked into the river upstream of Charleston’s drinking supply.\u00a0 No one knows the safe limit for MCHM, since the EPA grandfathered the chemical in when the Clean Water Act was created.<\/p>\n

To make problems worse, another chemical was found to have leaked into the water at about the same time.\u00a0 PPH was also grandfathered in, so no testing has been done on it to set maximum exposure limits for people.<\/p>\n

Despite repeated assurances that the water is safe, many people are still smelling the telltale licorice scent of MCHM as the water comes out of their faucet.<\/p>\n

West Virginia residents affected by the chemical spill can go to Congressman Nick Rahall’s site<\/a> and find out how to get help.\u00a0 His site provides links to FEMA and to applications for emergency small business loans to keep stores and other businesses open during this time.\u00a0 There is also a steady stream of information about investigations into the West Virginia water crisis.<\/p>\n

What can the rest of us do?\u00a0 If you don’t live in West Virginia or you live in a part of West Virginia with clean water, you might not realize there are still ways you can help the people affected.\u00a0 Read on for Sustainablog’s list of ways to help from afar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/1.rp-api.com\/rjs\/repost-article.js?3<\/a>\"\"<\/a>West Virginia Water Crisis Continues: How You Can Help<\/strong><\/a> (via sustainablog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

My own initial reaction to the chemical spill in West Virginia\u2019s Elk River was likely similar to many others not in the area: \u201cThat\u2019s terrible\u2026 I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll take care of it.\u201d More specifically, that was my \u201cindividual person who\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Charleston, West Virginia<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The West Virginia water woes continue, with more chemicals being discovered in the already contaminated Elk River.\u00a0 At least ten thousand gallons of MCHM leaked into the river upstream of Charleston’s drinking supply.\u00a0 No one knows the safe limit for MCHM, since the EPA grandfathered the chemical in when the Clean Water Act was created. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[2854,352,388,2649,1339,1697,1712,2501],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Charleston-West-Virginia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}