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Private Drinking Water Supplies Pose Challenges To Public HealthEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 Infrequent testing and maintenance puts consumers of these water supplies at greater risk of contamination than public systems, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). It goes on to state people need to take personal responsibility for their water quality and governments need to provide better oversight and resources in order to improve the case. Water-borne disease outbreaks are common in the developing world but can also occur in affluent countries. In the United States ... read more |
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Maputo (AFP) March 10, 2010Around 130,000 people are to be evacuated in flood-prone Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media said on Wednesday. Government declared a red alert for regions along the mighty Zambezi River, Africa's fourth-longest which originates in Angola, as well as the smaller Pungwe and Buzi rivers, Noticias newspaper said. The red alert imposes an evacuation order fo ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2010What's adding fuel to the fire of climate change? Well, fire. Some stunning images recently taken by NASA's Aqua satellite show one of the Earth's latest firestorms - this one at the Dundes Nature Reserve in Western Australia. Nearly 200,000 acres have gone up in flames as of February 18. That's a lot of carbon added to the atmosphere. The red outlines are the active fires, and the smoky c ... more  
London (AFP) March 9, 2010A Japanese insect is to be introduced on a trial basis in Britain to tackle a damaging super-weed, the government announced Tuesday. The Japanese knotweed was originally used as an ornamental plant in gardens across Britain but has rapidly spread, costing over 150 million pounds (225 million dollars, 165 million euros) a year to control. Agricultural and environmental research organisati ... more |
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Drought dries up Vietnam's waterwaysHanoi, Vietnam (UPI) Mar 8, 2009 Vietnam is struggling with its worst drought in more than 100 years. With practically no rainfall since September, the country is facing timber fires, plagues of rice-eating insects that are destroying millions of acres of rice paddies and dried-up rivers, Time magazine reports. For a country that historically has had to cope with flash floods and landslides during the July-to-November monsoon season, the drought is taking a lingering toll on the Vietnamese. "Drought is a slow, si ... read more |
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