According to their findings, the four states with the most county tap water violations are Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, the last of which had the highest tally of water drinking violations reported by a single system. This facility happened to be operated by the local government.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: The Long View up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.
Dolphins are swimming, mating and even giving birth in the PotomacFive decades ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the polluted Potomac River a “national disgrace.” Although it is now much cleaner, officials in Washington are still not convinced the water is safe for humans to swim in.
But many miles downriver, where the Potomac widens to lakelike proportions as it flows toward the Chesapeake Bay, it teems with a different species of swimmers whose presence may signal healthier waters: dolphins.
During the past four years, researchers who study the common bottlenose dolphins swimming this part of the Potomac have hardly been able to keep up with their numbers. Dolphins are easily identified by their distinct fins or marks on their bodies, and in 2015, scientists identified about 200 individuals in one section of river off Virginia’s Northern Neck. Now they have counted well over 1,000 dolphins, which sometimes congregate in groups of more than 200.
But an even more unusual development in this effort to understand the dolphins in “the nation’s river” came in August, when researchers with the project, based at Georgetown University, witnessed evidence of a dolphin birth. It was only the third documented observation of a wild dolphin birth, and those present say they hope it makes area residents view the Potomac differently.
“There are dolphins here, and there’s breeding and birthing going on, and this is connected to D.C. — such a populated, urban area,” Ann-Marie Jacoby, associate director of the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project, said on a recent morning while scanning the lower Potomac from the 18-foot skiff that serves as a research vessel. “You follow it further down and there’s all this wildlife here. And what people are doing up there, it does affect wildlife. They are directly linked to this oasis.”
A Chinese coconut milk manufacturer says that its beverage will make a woman's breasts grow bigger. The company, Coconut Palm, has spent several years promoting this claim in a series of "tone-deaf" advertisements that offer no evidence to support their claims - causing many to voice their doubts.
While their 2019 pitch features big breasted women on the drink's distinctive black packaging, a 2017 ad featuring scantily clad women folicking in the ocean recommends that women "drink one can every day, [your] curves will excite people, whiter and more plump," and "drinking more coconut milk every day can make [your] breasts fuller," reports the South China Morning Post.
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Our extensive research for this totally legitimate article also turned up no scientific evidence of breast-enhancing qualities linked to coconut milk.
