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Nine-year-old Kaniya Fuqua-Strickland fidgets as the adults talk about her memory loss. Flint born and raised—just like her mother, a nurse’s aide—Kaniya ...
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You may see earthworms as little more than a bunch of slimy, wriggling shit eaters, andJuan Carlos Guáqueta wouldn’t disagree. In fact, that’s exactly what ...
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New technologies, aging infrastructures and changing climates drive innovation as water utilities reshape for the future Two parallel initiatives in the ...
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The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down to tiny beads that end up in the food supply, ...
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I prepared and finalized the above master plan in year 2007- 8 under Asian Development Bank assisted RUIDP – Phase II programme. During the year 2006, due to ...
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Vietnam plans to allocate big budgets to develop waste water drainage systems in urban areas in recent years. However, the systems’ conditions remain poor ...
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Drinking water for more than 400,000 people is contaminated with chemicals linked to cancer, but Irish Water has refused to directly inform those affected ...
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Africa's largest fresh water source, Lake Victoria, has been named as a major breeding ground for waterborne diseases, putting millions of people at risk, ...
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Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Valencia have developed an innovative protocol for the detection of the three most prevalent Legionella species, ...
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Bacteria lurking in the water lines at the dentist's office are tougher than we thought, according to a new paper published in Water Research The study ...
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MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian ...
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New research using high-tech tools to measure the moisture in trees found that 120 million trees across nearly every part of California are at risk of dying. ...
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As planetary boundaries are rapidly being approached, humanity has little room for additional expansion and conventional intensification of agriculture, while ...
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The draft Environment Agency planning guidelines for PR19 outline that water companies “need to know how much water is reliably available to supply your ...
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Engineer Phil Boyd was originally looking for a repair option. A domestic water booster pump system at a downtown Seattle commercial property managed by ...
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A new game teaches players about the real-world political and geographical challenges water leaders in the West are facing Let’s face it. Serious, complex ...
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Access to clean water has become a global crisis, but in India, that problem is particularly acute: 99 million people there do not have access to clean water ...
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The tipping point is here, and utilities are learning the best ways to prevent water loss and protect revenue May you live in interesting times. Though ...
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