Saturday, November 8, 2008

City of the Day - Houston, TX

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2006 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles (1,600 km²). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area—the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of around 5.6 million.

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Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2003 shows that customers of City of Houston, Public Works Deptartmen drank water containing up to 19 pollutants. City of Houston, Public Works Deptartmen is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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