{"id":3203,"date":"2019-12-17T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:50:18","slug":"wildfires-can-lead-to-water-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/wildfires-can-lead-to-water-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires can Lead to Water Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the U.S. alone, approximately 4.4 million acres were burned by over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/misc\/IF10244.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40,000 wildfires<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2019. Wildfires severely impact people in many different ways. For example, Water quality can be compromised due to wildfire ash contaminating streams, rivers and other bodies of water. Rainstorms wash contaminants from wildfires into these water systems, which filter into drinking water facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wildfires are often unpredictable and move quickly, so water plants struggle creating a plan to keep water safe during these natural disasters. According to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/after-fire-blazes-pose-hidden-threat-west-s-drinking-water-n954806\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> NBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">65% of the public water supply in the Western U.S. comes from fire-prone areas, and wildfires can taint water with toxins and parasites,\u201d although these contaminants aren\u2019t limited to fire-prone areas. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stanford hydrologist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2019\/12\/17\/wildfires-impact-water-quality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newsha Ajami<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains, ash and smoke can spread harmful chemicals thousands of miles away \u2013impacting water all over the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sciencematters\/wildfires-how-do-they-affect-our-water-supplies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EPA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is researching wildfires and water quality as a result of the severity of 2019\u2019s wildfires. They\u2019re specifically studying if 20th century pollutants, like mercury and lead, are contaminating water faster because of wildfires and ways to protect water quality from wildfires. The organization is planning to use the information found by these studies to keep water quality safe in times of wildfires. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires are often unpredictable and move quickly, so water plants struggle creating a plan to keep water safe during these natural 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