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Tap water for every village by 2024: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma | Guwahati News

GUWAHATI: Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the state government is committed to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of providing clean tap water to all rural households in Assam by 2024 under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). He said in order to further boost the mission in Assam, all the implementing agencies […]

New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic

by Daniel S. Levy Daniel S. Levy is the author of Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York (Oxford University Press). Cholera prevention handbill, New York, 1832     After sweeping through Asia and killing hundreds of thousands in Europe, cholera neared New York in the spring of […]

How Bad Is It Really to Sleep With a Fan On?

Sleeping with a fan on could lead to mild health issues, but there are ways to nix its negative effects. Image Credit: LIVESTRONG.com Creative How Bad Is It Really? sets the record straight on all the habits and behaviors you’ve heard might be unhealthy. In This Article For some people, sleeping with a fan is […]

Air purifying plasma ‘soap’ – The Hindu BusinessLine

IIT-Jodhpur has developed a ‘cold-plasma detergent in environment’ (CODE) device under an industry-sponsored project to reduce the risk of infection from airborne pathogens indoors, by using DBD plasma in combination with nanotechnology. The device relies on a cold plasma discharge for the generation of plasma detergent ions. It has a geometry plasma source with specially […]

How to prevent repeat water crises? Reuse strategies part of the answer.

February 15, 2021, will forever be etched into our memory. At the height of the climate disaster that struck our state a year ago, over 13 million Texans lost access to clean drinking water. That is approximately half of the state’s population and also includes many hospitals that lost water. As Texas’ power crisis rapidly devolved […]

Oregon is poised to become one of the last states to lift mask mandates. Why?

Mask mandates The following is a list of 13 states with statewide indoor mask mandates or with mask requirements in schools during the omicron surge. Many have already done away with them or announced end dates. California: Indoor mandate for vaccinated people expires after Tuesday. School mandate remains in effect, with an announcement expected in […]

LA County’s COVID Hospitalizations Fall Again, 84 More Deaths Reported

COVID-19-positive hospitalizations continue to fall in Los Angeles County, moving residents closer to an outdoor mask mandate for large events being lifted, although another 84 virus-related deaths were also reported. The deaths reported Saturday gave the county a pandemic death toll of 29,846. The county also reported 4,760 new positive COVID tests, for a cumulative […]