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A PSA on PFAS: What are they and how can you filter them from your drinking water?
What does a microwave popcorn bag, a nonstick pan and nail polish all have in common? These products frequently contain chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that are severely threatening public health and water sources around the world.
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What You Need to Know About Microplastics
Since the 1950s, plastic manufacturing has skyrocketed and with it, plastic contamination. Everything from plastic straws to plastic soda rings are polluting bodies of water around the world. Plastic pollution is certainly a huge issue in the conversation of environmental degradation, but where does its smaller counterpart, microplastics, fall into the conversation?
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Does your child’s school have safe drinking water?
As millions of kids around the country trade swimsuits and popsicle sticks for backpacks and pencils, parents should be advised that recent research shows that contaminants in school drinking water can pose a threat to student health.
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2019 Mid-Year Impact Update
The first half of 2019 has been busy for our programs team. Here’s a quick review of what we've been up to!
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5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
Society is addicted to plastic (especially single-use plastics). We've got some tips to help you kick your plastic habit in your daily routine!
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Tap water contaminants & boiled water advisories - what you need to know and how LifeStraw protects.
The challenges facing the domestic water supply and quality.
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ADVENTURE
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- A Guide to Low-Waste Backpacking
- Best Places for Sustainable Travel to Reset for the New Year
- 10 of the Best Hikes in the US for Fire Fall Foliage
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- 5 Best Spots for Lake Camping in North America
- 5 Water Adventures to Have this Summer
- Drinking Safely in the Great Outdoors
- 5 best waterfalls around the world – water you waiting for?
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- What adventure means to me
- Backpacking in Carolina
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INCLUSION
- Small Steps for Big Impact: Anti-Racism Resources
- COVID-19's exacerbation of water insecurity in low-resource communities
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- A perspective on responding to floods and cholera in western Kenya during the time of COVID-19
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- Is the outdoors really inclusive?
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- The LifeStraw team will be out of the office on Giving Tuesday. Here’s Why:
- Going Beyond Safe Water: An experience with LifeStraw in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border
- Clean Water Across America: A Partnership with LifeStraw and Airstream!
- Tap water contaminants & boiled water advisories - what you need to know and how LifeStraw protects.
- What adventure means to me
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OUTDOORS
- Diversify Vanlife: The Movement to Make Vanlife Inclusive and Diverse
- Is the outdoors really inclusive?
- 5 Tips for Plus-Size Hikers
- A Guide to Low-Waste Backpacking
- Best Places for Sustainable Travel to Reset for the New Year
- 10 of the Best Hikes in the US for Fire Fall Foliage
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- 5 Best Spots for Lake Camping in North America
- Drinking Safely in the Great Outdoors
- Clean Water Across America: A Partnership with LifeStraw and Airstream!
- 5 best waterfalls around the world – water you waiting for?
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- What adventure means to me
- Backpacking in Carolina
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RESPONSIBILITY
- LifeStraw Mid-Year 2020 Impact Report
- Small Steps for Big Impact: Anti-Racism Resources
- COVID-19's exacerbation of water insecurity in low-resource communities
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- A perspective on responding to floods and cholera in western Kenya during the time of COVID-19
- LifeStraw in the time of COVID-19
- The LifeStraw team will be out of the office on Giving Tuesday. Here’s Why:
- Going Beyond Safe Water: An experience with LifeStraw in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border
- Compost or Bust?
- Striving for Sustainability on the Road
- Cyclone Idai: LifeStraw responds
- Sustainability
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TECHNOLOGY
- A PSA on PFAS: What are they and how can you filter them from your drinking water?
- What You Need to Know About Microplastics
- Does your child’s school have safe drinking water?
- 2019 Mid-Year Impact Update
- 5 ways to reduce your dependence on single-use plastics in your daily routine
- Tap water contaminants & boiled water advisories - what you need to know and how LifeStraw protects.
- Sustainability