′Why should I leave?′ — expats in Ukraine not rushing to depart | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW
Jens Daessler is not in a hurry. “I have a phone full of messages,” says the German business coach with a weary smile, most of them from friends and relatives asking if he plans to leave his home in Kyiv. It’s a familiar story to many foreigners living and working in Ukraine’s capital. While tensions […]
Sachet water vendors lament poor sales after increment, call for government’s intervention
Correspondence from the Ashanti Region Pure water sellers within the Kumasi metropolis have complained bitterly over poor sales feedback they are receiving following the recent increment in prices of sachet water. The price of a bag of sachet water which increased from Gh¢3.00 to Gh¢4.50 has adversely affected the price of single sachet water which […]
EPA Announces Action Plan to Accelerate Cyber-Resilience for the Water Sector
January 27, 2022 WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2022) – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its federal partners announced the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative – Water and Wastewater Sector Action Plan to help protect water systems from cyberattacks. The Action Plan focuses on high-impact activities that can be surged within 100 days to […]
Kamin: CDC Says COVID-19 Unlikely to Spread by Touching Surfaces| Workers Compensation News
By John P. Kamin Friday, January 28, 2022 | 0 During a recent doctor deposition, a well-renowned internist and pulmonologist told me he was skeptical about whether COVID-19 could be transmitted by touching a surface that was previously touched by a sick person. John P. Kamin He referred to multiple studies calling that theory of […]
Ambitious plan to transform Newton Armory into affordable homes
The firms chosen to transform the Newton Armory into a historically sensitive, environmentally progressive development of 100 percent permanently affordable housing, answered community questions this week about the project. More:Newton plans ahead for transformation of armory into affordable housing With an “aspirational but realistic” design, Metro West Collaborative Development (a nonprofit) and Civico Development said […]
SolarSpring Ships First Solar Powered Drinking Water System to Burkina Faso
The SolarSpring ECO 3000 solar powered drinking water system has a capacity of 3 m³/hour and is the first of many systems to be supplied to Burkina Faso within the upcoming years. An entirety of 6 km of piping was laid in preparation to the delivery in order to connect the system with its 5 […]
Which Pollutants Affect Indoor Air Quality? Envirotech Online
In recent years, much has been made of the dangers of exposure to air pollution, especially in big cities and other urban environments. But despite the fact that indoor air quality has been proven to be up to five times worse than that found outside – and that most of us spend around 90% of […]
New York’s bright energy future
Every morning millions of New Yorkers flick on their lights but are unaware that the energy powering their homes and offices comes overwhelmingly — as much as 90% — from burning fossil fuels. Those smokestacks are not in a faraway land, but are in the heart of New York City, and in backyards of families whose […]
27 Domestic Cases Announced by CECC, Linked to Existing Clusters
by Brian Hioe 語言:EnglishPhoto Credit: Rutger van der Maar/WikiCommons/CC 27 DOMESTIC CASES, 44 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) at its daily press conference today. 14 of the imported cases were found on arrival. 30 were found while in quarantine. The positivity rate for inbound flights is […]
Airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission beyond home isolation rooms may pose infection risk to others
A Rutgers study has detected tiny airborne particles containing RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, both inside and outside of the rooms in which infected people were self-isolating at home. This finding suggests that airborne transmission beyond the isolation rooms in homes may pose a risk of infection to other home occupants. The study, […]