Tag: water
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode214 – New World Next Year – 2015
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode214 – New World Next Year – 2015 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This year: Pilato’s 2014 Story: The Mainstreaming of Conspiracy The New American ‘Malaise’ “The Elf on the…
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Judge Won’t Stop Detroit Water Shutoffs
from abcnews.go.com: A judge overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy refused Monday to stop the city from shutting off water if people can’t pay their bill. Judge Steven Rhodes said the water department probably hasn’t done enough to help people with chronically low income, but noted there is no “enforceable right” to water. Rhodes covered much ground as…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode200 – Ferguson Violence, More Water Wars, Portland Portfolio
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode200 – Ferguson Violence, More Water Wars, Portland Portfolio Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Activists Say Outside Agitators to Blame for Ferguson Violence PBS: Timeline of…
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Cancer-inducing benzene traced in China water supply
from RT.com: Residents of Lanzhou, northwest China, have started panic-buying bottled water after city authorities confirmed the lethal chemical compound benzene was contaminating the city’s drinking water at 20 times the national safety level. Lanzhou warned its 2.4 million residents not to consume any water from the tap on Friday after tests conducted at a…
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World Water Day: Global Efforts to Conserve Most Precious Resource
from csmonitor.com: This Saturday, March 22nd, the world celebrates World Water Day. Water and agriculture are inextricably interlinked and interdependent. Agriculture is a major user of both ground and surface water for irrigation—accounting for about 70 percent of water withdrawal worldwide.
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Harvard: Fluoride Lowers Children’s Intelligence By 7 IQ Points
from washingtonsblog.com: The Harvard School for Public Health reports: In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this…
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Fracking study finds combustible levels of methane in water after EPA gave the all clear
from RT.com: A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Steve Lipsky, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, complained to the Environmental…
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Nine states propose 16 anti-fluoridation bills
from naturalnews.com: Things are heating up on the fluoride front as states and municipalities all across the country rethink their official water fluoridation policies. According to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), some 16 pieces of legislation across nine states were introduced or passed just within the past year to protect the public against this pervasive…
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Video: A Growing Concern – Portland Water PUD Initiative
Program features an interview with Travis Williams, Executive Director of Willamette Riverkeeper regarding an Initiative attempt to take the Portland Water Bureau and Bureau of Environmental Services away from the City Council and put it in the hands of a Public Utility District. Signatures are currently being gathered for a May 2014 election. Willamette Riverkeeper,…
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Hubble Detects Water Vapor Over Europa’s South Pole
from scitechdaily.com: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources already point to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy crust. Researchers are not…
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Arsenic Contamination Threatens Water in Hanoi
from NYTimes.com: Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from Pakistan to China. When it gets into underground aquifers, as has happened in Bangladesh, it can contaminate public water supplies and cause illness and death. Now researchers say arsenic is leaching into a major drinking-water aquifer that…
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Large water reserve in Kenya discovered
from bubblews.com: Recently it has been revealed that a large aquifer has been discovered in Kenya. More than 300 metres underground, there is so much water there it could potentially serve Kenya’s needs for 70 years. The Lotikipi Basin Aquifer was found by project ran by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and…
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Fluoridation victories continue as Washington town banishes toxic chemical from water supply
from naturalnews.com: Another victory has been won in the fight to protect the public against water supplies intentionally poisoned with artificial fluoride chemicals, this time in Woodland, Washington, a city located just 30 miles north of Portland, Oregon. As reported by The Daily News online, the Woodland City Council recently voted 6-to-1 to stop adding…
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Video: Bottled Life – The Truth about Nestlé’s Business with Water (trailer)
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Groundwater to be added to Portland supply system
from portlandtribune.com: The Portland Water Bureau will begin adding a small portion of water from its Columbia South Shore Well Field into the water distribution system on Tuesday, July 30. The blending part of a maintenance operation. It is scheduled to end on Aug. 9. The operation does not mean water behind the dams in…