Home > Clean Water for North Carolina    Clean Water for North Carolina Who We Are Since 1984 Clean Water for North Carolina (CWFNC, formerly the Clean Water Fund of North Carolina) has worked for clean, safe communities and workplaces with hundreds of communities and thousands of North Carolinians. http://www.cwfnc.org NPR's 'Living On Earth' Interview: "Sticky Situation Update" NPR's 'The State of Things' Interview: "Water" NPR's 'Living On Earth' - "Sticky Situation Update" The Living On Earth podcast with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10 top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US. Their webpage offers a complete listing of many quality audio programs: http://www.loe.org/. Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.loe.org/podcast.rss Here is the description from their website of an interview with Hope Taylor-Guevara Executive Director of Clean Water for North Carolina: ====>Click to hear "Sticky Situation Update" 20 Jan 2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 20 Jan 2006 Early this month we reported on health and safety concerns about the chemical C8, which is used to make Teflon and other non-stick and stain-resistant products. Thousands of residents near a DuPont C8 facility in West Virginia had their blood tested for the toxin after learning their drinking water had been contaminated for years. Now some North Carolina residents, near another DuPont plant are concerned about their water supply. DuPont's facility on the Cape Fear River, near Fayetteville, North Carolina, is now the only U.S. plant making C8. The 3M company had supplied the chemical to DuPont until concerns about potential health effects caused them to stop making it. So DuPont started making it in 2002. Hope Taylor-Guevara, of the group Clean Water for North Carolina, says it wasn't long before C8 started showing up in nearby monitoring wells. Copyright © 2006, 2007 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== NPR's 'The State of Things' - "Water" Many thanks to the NPR "State of Things" Radio Program for permission to link to their important discussion on "Black-Brown Relations in NC." The State of Things homepage can be found here: http://wunc.org/tsot Their podcast can be subscribed via this RSS feed: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/podcast.xml ===> Click To Hear "Water" Access to clean water is a basic human right, but private water companies are springing up all over North Carolina to provide the utility service to residents. . .for a fee. UNC-Chapel Hill professor David Moreau, Hope Taylor-Guevara, Executive Director of Clean Water for North Carolina, President of Aqua North Carolina Neil Phillips, Javier Garcia of Faith Action International House and Greensboro resident Mari Carmen Gardeno join host Frank Stasio to talk about the history of water privatization in the state, the ethical implications and the economic impact of privately owned water supplies. Copyright © 2006, 2007 North Carolina Public Radio, All Rights Reserved.