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Students take on bottled water industry in campus showdown
4:02 p.m. | By Ted Burnham | NPR | 0 commentsColleges are pulling bottled water off campuses as students argue the products hurt the environment and aren't well regulated. But the industry fired back this week with a YouTube video it hopes will sway students to keep buying bottles of water.
California plant to convert salt water to fresh water approved
Listen:Feb. 10, 2012 | By Corey Moore | KPCC | 2 comments
Seawater could become drinking water at a Huntington Beach plant. State water regulators at a meeting on Friday approved a permit for the new facility.
Feds slam San Onofre nuclear plant for not following procedures
Feb. 10, 2012 | By Paige Osburn | KPCC & wires | 1 comment
An NRC report Friday faults plant operator Southern California Edison for failing to follow its own procedures at the twin-reactor site north of San Diego.
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