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Water covers about 70 percent of the planet’s surface. But the amount of freshwater available for human use — everything from brushing our teeth to growing ...
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Abstract A relatively short list of reference viral, bacterial and protozoan pathogens appears adequate to assess microbial risks and inform a system-based ...
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Gordon Chua part of team testing ability of tiny organisms to clean oilsands wastewater Newswise — A research project underway at the University of Calgary ...
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The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project, which launches on #WorldMetDay 2016, will benefit nearly one million farmers over the next three years and ...
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Hackers infiltrated a water utility’s control system and changed the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water, we're told. The cyber-attack is ...
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