EDITORIAL: The appliance wars and government overreach
OPINION: When a blue jurisdiction (state or local) obsesses about what kind of appliances you have, they have pretty much raised the white flag on their day job. They can’t or won’t address crime, education, homelessness etc., so they make decisions about whether you can have gas stoves or gas water heaters in your home […]
burhanpur: Dhar, Burhanpur Declared As Drinking Water Scarce Areas | Indore News
INDORE: Summer is yet to knock the doors, but many parts of Nimar region have started facing water crisis. Dhar and Burhanpur districts have been declared as drinking water scarce areas until June 30 or till receiving sufficient rains. Bracing itself for the drinking water crisis in the summer, Dhar and Burhanpur district administration has […]
Why has air quality been sidelined in the fight against COVID?
Why did it take so long for COVID to be recognised as an airborne disease? CREDIT: This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared on The BMJ The world is finally coming to terms with the realisation that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. First came the modelling studies, sizing up airborne particles, their […]
Millions of dollars spent upgrading air quality during COVID-19
Mar. 6—The air-borne, contagious nature of COVID-19 has seen southwest Ohio schools focusing on improving building air quality not only for this pandemic but for those possible in the future. Schools in the northern Cincinnati and Greater Dayton areas have been collectively spending millions of dollars — much of it from federal COVID-19 relief money […]
NGOs, civil society groups call for banning use of plastic in Rohingya camps
Local NGOs and civil society groups in Cox’s Bazar have called for banning use of plastic in the Rohingya camps. At a press virtual press conference today, Cox’s Bazar Civil Society and NGO Forum (CCNF), a network of local NGOs and CSOs, said authorities should prioritize restoring the environment that is facing degradation due to […]
Water in mobile home park near Muscatine has state’s highest ‘forever chemicals’
The drinking water of a mobile home park near Muscatine that serves about 100 people contains the highest concentrations of toxic chemicals that persist indefinitely in the environment that have been detected so far by a new state survey. The water of Kammerer Mobile Home Park, which is just south of Muscatine in a low-lying […]
Wikwemikong Nursing Home COVID-19 outbreak ended
Resident Rita Wemigwans gets her COVID-19 vaccine. WIIKWEMKOONG—The COVID-19 outbreak at the Wikwemikong Nursing Home is now over. “We declared the outbreak over on Tuesday, February 22, after about three weeks,” stated Cheryl Osawabine-Peltier, administrator of the nursing home, late last week. “When the outbreak was first declared, public health had said to expect that […]
Air quality solutions at The Health & Safety Event
INTERNATIONAL EQUIPMENT rental and solutions specialist Ashtead Technology will be attending The Health & Safety Event in April 2022 with TSI Instruments, who they have worked with for over 15 years. As a Gold Channel Partner with TSI, Ashtead Technology offers rental and purchase options for an extensive range of TSI’s advanced air quality & […]
Has Ohio reached the COVID-19 endemic. What role did the Arnold play?
It’s been two years, but surely you remember March of 2020 well. You may even recall shaking your head in disbelief on the 5th of the month when The Arnold Sports Festival became Ohio’s first major event forced to ban most spectators and partly cancel as fears of coronavirus spread. Here we are nearly two years after the World Health Organization […]
Ukraine Public Health: Preventing acute intestinal infectious diseases with potential water supply issues
NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Public Health Center of Ukraine published the following last week concerning the potential risk of water supply issues in the current situation in the country: Image/Robert Herriman Due to the possibility of disconnecting centralized water supply systems to avoid shortages of drinking water, local authorities together with enterprises, institutions, organizations are obliged to […]