Water-organizing motif continuity is critical for potent ice nucleation protein activity
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People Resort To Drinking Contaminated ‘Flood Water’ In Marooned Villages; Here’s Why
With no availability of potable water in the isolated villages in numerous parts of Odisha, many people have turned to drink what is available – the contaminated and muddy water that has collected in villages over the last few days due to flood. Though the water in flooded rivers has gone down immensely and is […]
Boil water notice & boiling tempers
ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Neighbors in North Odessa’s upper plain neighborhood say the multiple boil water notices they’ve experienced in 2022 are getting old. “We don’t ever drink tap water over here. We drink bottled water,” said Michael Falayi. “It does get frustrating. Thankfully, we have relatives that live outside of the North Park area […]
Amid Drought, Tijuana Is Paying California for Colorado River Water
Tijuana is paying California for more water than it has in recent years as the city faces a growing population coupled with blistering drought that’s gripping the entire West. Northern Baja is entitled by treaty to 1.5-million-acre feet of Colorado River water per year, which is Tijuana’s primary water source. But for years the amount […]
UN spotlights ‘invisible’ value of groundwater during World Water Week |
“It is our duty to ensure groundwater has its rightful place in all of our action plans,” said Gilbert Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water, in his video message to an online session, titled “Groundwater: Making the invisible visible.” 99 per cent According to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2022, groundwater accounts for 99 per cent of […]
RSU 9 Board of Directors discuss remediation testing program for lead in school’s water systems – Daily Bulldog
FARMINGTON – At the RSU 9 Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday night, Director of Finance & Operations Dan Higgins discussed the need for remediation testing of the school’s water fixtures. In response to the results from the the initial water testing on March 29, the decision was made to embark on a remediation program. […]
Free Water Quality Screening Test Kits – Nebraska City News Press
Good water quality is important to your health and the health of your community. In communities surrounded by agriculture, there is potential for contamination of water resources by manure and fertilizer application. Nitrate and phosphate are nutrients needed for improved plant growth, but excesses of these nutrients cause adverse impacts on water resources and those […]
Our View: The acceptable level of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water is zero
Drinking water at more than half a dozen Maine schools, from Greater Portland to the Midcoast, recently exceeded the state’s limit for the toxic chemical compounds linked to cancers, developmental disabilities, liver damage, weakened immune systems and more. When it comes to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as the schools finding emphasizes (one of those affected […]
Not all of us have access to safe drinking water. This clever rainwater collector can change that
Access to clean drinking water is fundamental to our health and wellbeing, and a universal human right. But almost 200,000 Australians are still forced to use water contaminated with unsafe levels of various chemicals and bacteria. The situation is especially dire in remote areas. To tackle this issue, we have developed an integrated rainwater harvesting […]
Cuttack city residents still struggle for drinking water- The New Indian Express
By Express News Service CUTTACK: Residents of the Millennium City continue to struggle for drinking water because authorities of Water Corporation of Odisha Limited (Watco) are yet to restore the flood-hit intake well of the 129 MLD water treatment plant. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who had dedicated the ‘Sujal-Drink From Tap Mission’ to city residents […]